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: Citta and Non-Grasping
    (Cittaviveka) When the mind is not steady and has gone into activation, clinging is inevitable. The clung-to experience creates the person. But there’s a choice. Our responsibility is to manage the flood of the aggregates through mindfulness.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Mindfulness and Non-Grasping
    (Cittaviveka) The trained mind is fluid and flexible – natural. The untrained mind is fixed and grasping – loses its agility. Training comes through mindfulness of the 4 bases and 3 aspects of mind. Body gives mind something to anchor itself on so the habits of grasping that create a fixed self can be released.
    52 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Body Trains Mind
    (Cittaviveka) Body provides a steady reference for mind. Mind by itself runs off and gets lost it thoughts and emotions. Body gives a place from which to review mental phenomena. Simply by paying attention to what’s happening directly in the body, the mode of attention shifts. We can use body to empty mental proliferation.
    49 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Whole Body Handles Feeling
    (Cittaviveka) This energy field that carries sensation doesn’t just carry sensations from the physical world, but psychologically-induced experiences as well. This is where the experience of feeling starts to move between the bodily and mental base. If we practice with the feeling base of body, we have a guide for working with mental feeling.
    41 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Asalha Puja – Middle Path
    (Cittaviveka) We can get sidetracked with a focus on mindfulness or stress reduction or meditation techniques. We don’t understand what leads up to them, the Noble 8-Fold Path. This Path begins with right view - knowing the heart and how it’s affected - and right effort - bringing up skillful mindstates.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Closing: Keeping Citta Fit for Practice
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) There are places where the mind slips and slides into injurious patterns, subtle points of misconduct that do harm. Develop qualities of sīla to guard and protect the citta, shaping it according to Dhamma rather than to worldliness or old kamma.
    35 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Sharing the Blessing
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Offering of Truth: After making the dedication of offerings, a guided meditation that invites the qualities of generosity is provided. Through this, we recall what we’ve received from teachers, parents, the earth – and the challenges that have caused us to grows. As we recollect, we offer our ongoing aspiration.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Associating with Good People
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Associating with good people is the nutriment that leads to true knowledge and liberation. We learn what’s most important from other people, not from books and ideas. To find good people, start by being one.
    55 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.