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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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2017-06-12 Qigong Instructions: A Means for Release 42:47
knee circles, neutral position, string puppet, kwa squat, sensing the midline, raising the sky, medicine ball
Cittaviveka
2016-06-25 I Is a Movement 48:49
The average person operates under the assumption they are a person having experiences. If we look more deeply, we recognize it’s just experience, and experience creates the sense of a person having experiences. The ‘I’ who does things is the movement of kamma. ‘Myself’ is the results of what I hold into – what I incline to becomes the fundamental quality of ‘me.’
Cittaviveka
2011-10-12 Openess Merging Into The Deathless 24:58
Different maps are given to track the trajectory from suffering to non-suffering. The themes are similar – finding resources to come into the present, meet what arises, not get stuck, know that no matter how pleasant or unpleasant this will pass – and we’re left with this openness. Trust the openness, where things end by themselves. This is the deathless.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-11 Wisdom Activity 30:55
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-10 Training The Mind In The Renunciant Form 20:33
Training in renunciation helps us know that nothing belongs to us except for kamma. What’s important is knowing what is skillful and unskillful, and to keep setting aside what’s not skillful. Come to know when the mind is coming from purity or confusion. Faith is a support in the midst of confusion and overwhelm.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-09 Guided Meditation - Simple Awareness 49:41
Recollecting the Buddha’s awakening, we also sit, firmly, simply. When the forces of thought and feeling come, we sit peacefully, refusing to fight, run away or get involved. Letting it all move through, where is the stillness? Clarity is the mark of awakened ones, knowing exactly what is arising – naming it, sensing it.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-08 Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith 21:36
Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-08 It All Comes Back To Awareness 39:30
Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-07 Mindfulness Of The Body 33:07
Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat
2011-10-06 Viriya - Resources And Applications 23:04
A reflection on the faculty of energy and how to apply it skillfully. Energy for investigation that leads to wisdom, energy for devotion and aspiration that uplifts the heart, energy for mindfulness of body that results in calm and insight.
Cittaviveka Vassa Group Retreat

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