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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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2020-07-10 Refresh Energy through Breathing 29:24
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Refreshing and regenerating energy is a necessary part of our practice to counter tense, constricted and disconnected states. Mindfulness of breathing is a means for toning up. We can go to the energetic bases of these tendencies and clear them.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
2020-07-09 Thinking without a Thinker 34:04
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When full ground is not properly established, thinking creates the thinker. With proper ground, it’s possible to hover over the thought process and listen deeply to the underlying emotional stream. Establish ground using a simple meditation object that the mind can easily access and stabilize on.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
2020-07-08 Commitment to Lightness 38:46
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In our practice we’re looking not so much at what we want but what we want to release ourselves from – clinging. We challenge the compulsiveness of our reactions, to fight or to grab, with a commitment to lightness. We apply ourselves with deliberate, steady, lightness of touch so things can move and release.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
2020-07-07 Foundation for Meditation 43:55
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To relax the activity of the mind, awareness – citta – needs something else to stand on. We set up internal and external foundations that generate the sense of steadiness and stability. This enables us to get perspective and step back from the stream of energies and mind-states that we call ‘myself.’
Cittaviveka :  Vassa 2020 Opening Group Practice Retreat, Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery
2020-07-05 Saturday Public Talk: Āsalha Puja – The Pleasure of Release 49:46
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On Āsalha Puja we commemorate the occasion when the Buddha gave his first teaching on the Four Noble Truths and the Middle Path of Practice. By cultivating this Path, the mind stops looking outside of itself – it finds pleasure in itself.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-07-05 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Guided Meditation – The Content of the Mind 10:09
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Contemplating the mind, not trying to change or explain it, knowing it as just a mental state, a result of causes and conditions. If feeling pressed upon by the mind, pause and widen. Bring attention to the body. Determine the appropriate attitude for settling.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Training in Mutuality-Based Speech Lessens Self-Centeredness 48:16
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Speech, whether internal or external, tends to reinforce and reify the sense of self. Self-awareness, rather than self-referencing, is recommended. Speech has the possibility of helping to prune, clarify, steady – it can help lead to the end of the person. Sutta references: AN4:183; M.58:12
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-06-28 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation - Settling into Shared Space 13:17
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The mind becomes crowded with our thoughts, impressions, plans and worries. But what’s the bit that’s not occupied by all of that? Stability and confidence are available in that space, to meet what is arising.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-06-21 Dhamma Stream Online Puja: Nibbidā – Turning Away from Conditioned Consciousness 45:28
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An untrained mind has no choice, it goes straight into dukkha; the trained mind has the possibility to turn away from patterns that the mind creates. The hinge-point is nibbidā – disinterest, disenchantment – to no longer be gripped by the play of the mind. Through this, mental patterns can be acknowledged as they arise but not entered into. Through remaining with dispassionate awareness, liberation can be realized. *Sutta references - AN10:2; SN35:28
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2020-06-21 Dhamma Stream Guided Meditation: Surveying the Movements of Mind and Body 10:05
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Instructions for surveying the movements of mind and body from a wider, detached perspective. See the patterns that arise without fixating on them. Topics can then be approached from a more enlightened perspective.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down

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