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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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2009-07-19 Guided Meditations 44:24
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Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-18 The Most Obvious Important Thing 48:04
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We have something in us that naturally searches for pleasure, searches for meaning. We go out to find it, but it’s actually right here in our embodiment. The indriya are expressed in our embodiment, they support embodied intelligence. Focus on the practises that establish these faculties. As they come together, everything rests, there’s a ceasing, you can relax.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-17 Dhamma Body is Nobody's 30:09
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A reflection on the tendency to attach to external forms. Can we make use of these systems and structures without getting so wrapped up in them? Cultivation of the 5 indriya helps establish appropriate relationship to the world. As they come together, you start to see the 4 Noble Truths. It’s the only thing that’s really sure!
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-16 Growing a True Face 24:19
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A lot of practice is about working with difficult mind states, emotional currents, and personality patterns. With the establishment of basic ground, we bring together a unified Dhamma body that holds us steady. It gives us a reference point, a presence, that drains power out of the hindrances and allows us to meet difficulties that arise.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-14 Natural Mind - Strength, Warmth, Clarity 29:34
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With mindfulness there’s a deepening into mind. When established you feel the flow of natural responses. Mindfulness places us back into these fundamental qualities of basic strength, basic warmth, basic clarity. The practise is staying with that, letting confused restless energies settle into that. That’s where samadhi can arise.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-13 Five Faculties - Indriya 22:07
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The indriya (faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness, discernment), sometimes called the governing faculties, are capacities we already have and operate through in some rudimentary form. This teaching gives a description each, and how they can be developed to become supportive faculties. When they come together, they merge in the deathless.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-12 Guide Meditation on Breathing 46:45
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Keep in mind, attention is on breathing rather than a breath – a process, not a specific thing. Making use of vitakka-vicara, linger and pick up the quality of breath-energy as it moves through. Hold the form, keep the inquiry, remain in the present moment. What is the breathing now?
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-12 Lawless Order 23:57
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There are certain inclinations we have as human beings. These boil down to the indriya – dominating faculties – of faith, energy, mindfulness, concentration and wisdom. They can go wrong, become sources of suffering if they’re not balanced through awareness. Various examples of how they manifest, and how to keep them in harmony are given.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-11 Having Fun (Skillfully) 36:40
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The experience of having fun, enjoyment, is an energy. The problem comes when we locate it externally, then attach to it, self-orient around it. A skilful person knows how to cultivate pleasure in themselves. Practise with meditation. Find out what blocks it and what encourages it. The Buddha taught pleasure as a way to awakening.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat
2009-07-11 Walk Back to Center 18:31
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In whatever activity we engage in, meditation through the postures is a matter of returning to presence – to that awareness which can know. With walking, don’t do the walking, meditate the walking. Maintain a core presence that doesn’t participate and doesn’t shut anything out. Meet everything with openness and alertness, like a mother welcoming her children.
Cittaviveka :  Vassa Retreat

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