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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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2009-01-17 Transcendence Includes It All 59:55
The process of liberation is sometimes referred to as ‘transcendence’. Transcendence means you meet feeling, and mind gets bigger than that, includes it all. It is a natural mode of the mind, to meet and include. Enlightenment factors enable this stepping back and non-involvement. We can then meet the results of kamma and realize liberation.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-16 Inherited Kamma-Broadening The Range Of Practice 36:52
In general, practice is about creating the type of environment which can hold, accommodate and handle our kamma – whether that is internal and external. Enlightenment factors work to dissolve the encrusted compulsive reactions. Then we have more space, more choice in what we do and don’t do.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-15 Knowing Through Dispassion 37:24
Mindfulness offers the ability to sustain, to notice, and therefore to be wise. Through this we can experience feelings that arise as energy in the body. Stepping back, there is a shift from being in these to a knowingness of them, with resultant dispassion. This is the liberating process of insight.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-14 Intergration Into daily Death 36:28
Cittaviveka
2009-01-14 Generating Skilful Feeling 34:30
Mindfulness is about knowing how one is affected. We come to know where impulses and intentions/motivations come from, whether these are spiritual or worldly. With skilful intention, there is the possibility to generate pleasant feeling within ourselves. We can find joy in our own presence rather than through external means.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-13 A Step Towards The Transcendant 43:01
This teaching describes the running of psycho-somatic ‘programs’ (saṇkhārā ) – in terms of those that are default and those we can intentionally induce. In this way, in meditation, we develop skills that can change our psychological patterns. The method is: first step back from the torrent of mind; then, cultivate enlightenment factors.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-12 Natural Mind 3-Clarity 34:46
Cittaviveka
2009-01-12 Energy,view and Anapansati 37:43
When the mind is relieved from pressure, we can review the experience of what’s running through the mind, feeling the changes in terms of somatic energy. This energy body has primary intelligence, and retains learnt impressions. Through mindfulness of breathing, we calm and soothe this energy body – with resultant clarity.
Cittaviveka Winter Retreat
2009-01-11 Natural Mind 2-Heart 50:01
Cittaviveka
2009-01-10 Natural Mind 1-Ground 41:09
Cittaviveka

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