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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House) episodes
- Ajahn Sucitto: Cultivating Samadhi -(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Open and Include ; Relaxing the Chitta27 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Evening Puja -Coming to the Robe - The Citta - Finding and Cleaning the River(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) A reference point for the day; coming back to the same place - Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha; acknowledging the citta47 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Cultivating Sati(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Mindfulness is like a hand to hold things; how and why and want to hold? The need for correct application, correct object, correct way of holding. The breath and its vitality.32 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation (Walking)(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Moving from sitting to standing; feeling the whole body; walk so you feel the whole body walking; not just the legs - hips, body, shoulders, feet. Feeling the lift, feeling the weight transfer, the fluidity.12 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Using sensation or impressions of the body; watching the energy begin to reveal itself; 30 minute meditation with bell35 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Reflection on the Satipatanna sutta and the Anapanasatta sutta(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Sati - the quality that allows remembering; different types of bodies we can experience inwardly through mindfulness of our physical senses and the mind; cultivating feelings from honesty, calm, patience and metta/ loving kindness - cultivating the citta/ heart; four places to live in a complete practice; wise attention; what do I feel/ feel like? Sankharas or energies / vitalities in the body; feeing oneself from the trap of the senses using the body of the breathing ; what knows how to breathe? Cultivating the experience of anapanasati - purifying through breathing. Discovering and working with tensions in the body - widen and soften. Breathing calm and patience into the body, nursing the body.58 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Morning Reflection - How to practice(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) The nature of praise; the nature of Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. Filling the heart with faith and aspiration; cultivating uprightness of the body, the mind; being present in the river of our lives with all experiences. Mindful of the body - moving through the body and optimizing the posture. Mindful of attitude.54 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Evening - Guided meditation(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) Review of posture; mixture of alertness in the back and relaxation in the front22 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Evening - Introductory Explanations(Young Buddhists Association of Thailand) How to see and use the retreat; Significance of bowing; refuges and precepts; need to realize the opportunity for practice and its urgency34 min
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About Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House)
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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.
Sitting in a field of fifty to eighty people really starts my mind sparking. Since I don't prepare my talks ahead of time, I find myself listening to what I'm saying along with everyone else. This leaves a lot of room for the Dhamma to come up. Just having eighty people listening to me is enough to engage me, stimulate me, and create a nice flow of energy. The actual process of teaching evokes ideas that even I did not realize were being held somewhere in my mind.
Different teaching situations offer their own unique value. In retreat, you are able to build a cohesive and comprehensive body of the teachings. When people are not on retreat and come for one session, it opens a different window. They are more spontaneous and I'm given the chance to contact them in ways that are closer to their "daily-life mind." This brings up surprises and interesting opportunities for me to learn even more.
I'm continually struck by how important it is to establish a foundation of morality, commitment, and a sense of personal values for the Vipassana teachings to rest upon. Personal values have to be more than ideas. They have to actually work for us, to be genuinely felt in our lives. We can't bluff our way into insight. The investigative path is an intimate experience that empowers our individuality in a way that is not egocentric. Vipassana encourages transpersonal individuality rather than ego enhancement. It allow for a spacious authenticity to replace a defended personality.
I normally incorporate Qi Gong instruction in my retreats. They are not suitable as audio files but you can watch the nine videos here: https://tinyurl.com/Sucitto-qigong