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: 5 Indriya
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) The mind gets taken over by defective programs causing imbalance. This imbalance is called dukkha. The Buddha introduced a graduated way to shift this imbalance. This process brings up indriya, spiritual faculties. These help to mediate the tendencies of craving and clinging and result in a greater sense of harmony and balance.
    40 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A 1
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Physical pain; draining tension through the body; meeting the agitation of being on retreat; dealing with demons and emotional chaos; are liberation practices and goodwill compatible; is goodwill readily available through study and reflection; what thoughts to let pass, what to examine; definition and experience of full knowing; is noting necessary for Vipassana?
    1 hr 5 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Liberation and Structures
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Our personality patterning can be very intense and driven. We’ve got to build in something that holds it back, slows it down, tames it. We use a combination of structures and tonality to create new patterns, ones that keep us from holding on.
    59 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Rising Energies and Tonalities
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Citta gets shaped into particular forms based on causes and conditions. Over time it can get locked into distorted forms constricting the natural nature of citta which is flexible, bright and expansive. With a mind of unconditional acceptance, energetic patterns can be cleaned and released through body.
    37 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Develop a Forcefield of Goodwill
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) In recollection we use thought more slowly than usual. Capture the meaning and touch the heart. This is a way to reset the heart, making it strong so it doesn’t go into resentment, grudges and other unpleasant states.
    8 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Hold the Heart Steady against the Push of Ill-Will
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) The general mode is to change the outside world to please the heart, but this can never satisfy. We practice instead to change the heart, to make it strong enough to withstand the push of ill-will. Refuges include the Triple Gem, brahmavihāras, mindfulness of body and precepts.
    44 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Deep Attention – Referencing Uplifting Tones
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) In any cultivation there is a referencing that occurs. In Dhamma practice we refer back to uplifting tones – integrity, respect, appropriateness. These invite skillful qualities to arise making it possible to unseat demons of violence, greed and efficiency.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Making the Mind Fit
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) The nature of mind is what you give attention to will grow. We use recollection to generate uplifting tones in the heart, to increase bright energy. This makes the mind fit to meet afflictive patterns and energies.
    22 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Direct Practice: Sound Opens the Silence
    (Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) This is an exercise in direct practice, using sound to train the mind. Making a sound from one’s own voice, we use it to lengthen attention over one particular phenomenon rather than jumping onto the next thing. It opens the silence where the mind is poised, listening.
    32 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.