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Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks at Cittaviveka
Ajahn Sucitto
As a monk, I bring a strong commitment, along with the renunciate flavor, to the classic Buddhist teachings. I play with ideas, with humor and a current way of expressing the teachings, but I don't dilute them.
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2025-10-06 A steady plane in a see-saw world 44:09
Within the world of praise and blame gain and loss, one’s balance grows. This plane of accomplishment neither binds to, nor rejects social and personal systems and customs, but uses them with kindness and integrity. As the heart sustains this, layers of one’s unconscious grasping are revealed and released.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-05 Goodwill is food for the heart 45:15
When handled contemplatively, the energy of goodwill feeds, repairs and strengthens the heart. It can govern our speech and convert our mental attitudes from those of the competitive world. It can also be taken in to clear the residues that these worldly habits have established; anxiety, performance drive and self-criticism.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-04 Extinguishing, cooling, release 49:40
Through a steady inclining towards release from personal habits, the root clinging of 'me' is exposed. Training challenges this, and with dispassionate perseverance, there can be a surprising release from the 'me bag'.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-03 Practice is internal-external with an open centre 48:36
The citta/heart is affected or confronted by external and internal conditions. Apply wise attention to draw the energies of wholesome conditions into the heart – this is the foundation for samadhi. With a collected heart one can review and release from the constructs of time and space.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-02 Undoing obsessions through mindfulness 46:02
Ingrained habits and obsessive emotions can be met and released through mindfulness established in the body. The practice of mindfulness of breathing purifies perception and volition to undo the sense of self based in time,
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-10-01 Effort means using energy wisely 46:54
The indriya work together – if one's faith is placed with wisdom and mindfulness sustains the focus on the wholesome, concentration occurs and one's energy is replenished. Effort should be wisely applied to break the pull of negative obsessions, The sense of time is to be uprooted, for example in walking meditation.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-09-30 Indriya allies for citta's release 50:50
The five indriya are factors that are accessible and take one's attention from the sensory world of circumstance to the citta -heart or mind. The initial indriya is faith, a quality that serves as a wellspring off support through the ups and downs of life.
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-09-06 Life is like washing a slippery cup with wet hands 51:03
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-08-08 Heart - truth turns the dhamma wheel 60:20
Cittaviveka Cittaviveka 2025 Vassa
2025-07-18 Clearing kamma with insightful metta 47:25
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