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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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2021-06-01 Puja - The Sacred 30:09
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In puja we align ourselves to the sacred. It gives our hearts a sense of purpose. Recollection of values and virtues are uplifted and sustained, giving rise to sappurisa – a person of integrity whose actions are for the welfare of all.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-06-01 Morning Chanting, 5 Subjects for Frequent Recollection 8:16
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Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-06-01 Day 3 Q&A1 42:27
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How do I know if I have stream entry; how is fasting a benefit for practice; is body contemplation needed, how often; how to live with someone who lacks integrity; sāti and samādhi; experience of rapture during meditation; difficult to see dukkha in sense pleasures; observing eight precepts; keeping ‘not eating after noon’ based on which time zone; issue of entitlement; receiving guidance from a teacher; understanding causes and conditions for clarity.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Feeling Creates the Person 24:23
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The effect of feeling, agreeable or disagreeable, touches the citta. The practice is not to contract around the resonance, don’t grab the feeling. It’s the clinging reflex that creates the person. Maintain open stable presence – go bigger and wider than the activations – and the grasping lessens.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Steering Thought 24:32
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We need to train and tame thought so we can use it carefully for inquiry and investigation. Steering away from the conceived, find out how citta is being affected. Supported by embodiment and qualities of goodwill and compassion, the tamed, trained thinking mind gives rise to insight – it’s a liberator.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Day 2 Q&A 48:50
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What is practicing directly; differences between sāti sampajañña and sātipañña; meandering/curious attention when practicing; how important is jhāna; help working with our habits and blind spots; how to work with the inner critic; when to address things internally or externally with regards to other people.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Guided Meditation – Core Stability of Body 60:21
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Body’s somatic intelligence is receptive to signals – suggest signals of safety, space, freedom. Settle more deeply into the core stability of the body, where it’s not mediating with internal or external phenomena – restful, like a tree.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Know One’s Range 52:33
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Realization can’t be taught, but it can be induced. Stable in one’s presence – open, listening, attentive – one comes to know one’s own range, the place where your potentials can properly unfold without getting tangled and without overreaching. Absorb into this steady place to begin clearing the floods.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Guided Meditation - Recollection 27:10
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With recollection, we drop meanings into the heart and listen. It’s how we come to know experience directly. Recollections of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha help frame up our meditation and cultivation – how to act, what to put aside, what to say no to, what to say yes to, and how to do that in a measured way.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload
2021-05-31 Puja – The Path to Here and Now 11:31
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In this practice we are gently peeling back the layers of time and identity to come into something much more sensitive. The act of puja is a sign for citta. Praising and recollecting in both meaning and enactment mark the path of the here and now.
Cittaviveka :  Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

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