Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House)

Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House)

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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House) episodes

  • Ajahn Sucitto: Rest Intention through Embodiment, Dhamma Stream Live Puja
    (Cittaviveka) Intention is the basis for action, giving shape to what we do and who we become. Conditioned intentions around beliefs, work and security cause stress. The process of meditation takes us into the somatic domain, to the roots of the mind. Here intentions and reflexes can be reset to be lighter, more flexible and comfortable.
    34 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Breaking Out of the Box
    (Cittaviveka) Conditioned by ignorance, we can end up concocting the very scenarios we feel trapped in. The citta leaves its own center and gets stuck in conditions. Samādhi gives us the possibility of disengaging from the tangles, and allowing wisdom to be directed to the heart of the problem – ignorance and outflows. This directed wisdom can dismantle the box we unconsciously create for ourselves.
    44 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Place Where the Floods Don’t Go
    (Cittaviveka) The untrained mind is always half crazy. Citta has left the safety of its home and is affected by conditions and circumstance. But it can be trained to turn back to immovable ease, to remain in the place where the floods and tides of suffering don’t go.
    40 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: How to Not Go Crazy
    (Cittaviveka) On account of the untrained citta, consciousness is skewed – its input is unstable, unsatisfactory, doesn’t fit. It can make one feel crazy. How to get free? In meditation we practice disengagement, the possibility to be ‘with it’ rather than ‘in it’. Lingering in that space, what can arise is action based on sanity, that comes from a trained and healthy citta.
    42 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Work of Ease
    (Cittaviveka) It’s a natural inclination for citta not to suffer, but it’s confused, it needs to be trained. Citta can turn away from the tangles of ignorance towards signs that produce ease. Training with nimbleness and flexibility, citta becomes grounded, stable, not easily knocked over, easily handling what comes its way.
    41 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Open the Centre, Reset the Boundaries
    (Cittaviveka) Meditation is often approached from the standpoint of a person who ‘does’ the meditating. This self view is not a position that will give rise to calm or release – it’s the condition we want to be released from. Meditation can be used to change the ways we attend that form the separate self. Eventually the steadiness of mindfulness, rather than the ‘I am’ sense’, can become the orientation.
    36 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Happy Misfit
    (Cittaviveka) Citta jumps and rushes towards experience it thinks will bring security. It’s a compulsion, an addiction. But citta can turn, starting with disengagement, then stabilizing and calming. Settle into the happiness of these effects, and you have a good foundation to eliminate the irrational drives and compulsions that cause suffering.
    42 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Opening into Consciousness
    (Cittaviveka) In meditation we rest into what’s always here. Like dropping a net into the river and seeing what we catch, we simply take note with awareness, deep listening and open presence. Use structures and qualities as a skillful tetherings, to turn citta away from the complexity of stimulation, activity and abstraction. When energies are no longer running out, citta settles in itself. This is samādhi.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Filtering the Flood
    (Cittaviveka) In meditation we practice viewing the stream of circumstance from the place of acknowledgement. Let the stream flow past without getting into the details. Centering practices of body, presence, ethics and heart strengthen the possibility to shift attention from the outflows to here.
    53 min

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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.