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: The Buddha’s Discourse on Emptiness
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Introducing the Buddha’s lesser discourse on emptiness, Ajahn Sucitto refers to his own experience on sabbatical for a year. He describes ‘uninventing’ himself, tuning into the signless – anicca and anata. Whatever we think, conceive, generate has been generated by mind and is subject to change. How to cultivate recognition of what’s not there, emptiness.
    52 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Picking Up a Sign and Making Much of It
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) When starting meditation, begin with balancing and calming the body and breathing, but just getting it good enough. This is something that is gained through direct practice over time. Bring certain signs (nimita) to mind to aid in calming. The mind’s tendency is to focus on negative things. Practice bringing the beautiful to mind and make much of it.
    19 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Don’t Concentrate - Absorb
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Liberation requires clearing citta of its contracted state. We can learn to care for our citta, to know what lifts and steadies it to bring it out of contraction. In meditation we try to concentrate and feel even more constricted. Opening up the body and accessing the vitality that comes from mindfulness of breathing can have a calming effect.
    43 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Not a Technique – Direct Experience
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Meditation is not a set of techniques; it is authentic, direct access to your inner heart/felt subjective experiences. Many times what’s found there is dukkha. Much of it can be resolved just by developing the inner body and clearing the hindrances.
    28 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Mental Feeling Always Surpasses Physical Feeling
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Bear this in mind when meditating. With unpleasant or painful mental feeling, the tendency is to contract. Try opening up instead. It stops the cycle of agitation and resistance that keeps the pain there. Use the body to do this, as a source of strength and energy to stop the mind spinning out into story. In order to withdraw and stand back, we must have a place to stand back into. That’s what the body is for.
    57 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Recollection – A Skillful Use of Thought
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) The practice of recollection involves picking up a particular line of thought that triggers a particular mood or realization. Just saying ‘stop thinking’ or ‘don’t worry’ won’t work to calm and steady the mind. Those are commands. Through recollection the mind can find a degree of stability and comfort, providing refuge under unpleasant and uncomfortable conditions.
    51 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.