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- Ajahn Sucitto: Merging In The Deathless(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The Buddha teaches the way to the deathless; this way is not through one thing, but through a balance, a mandala of spiritual factors.1 hr 11 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Questions(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Questions included subjects such as bhava/becoming, reflecting on death, short cuts to enlightenment, right effort ...1 hr 43 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: No Carrot, No Stick: Opening to the Center(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Feeling attracts and motivates the mind - often heedlessly. The feeling that accompanies skillful intention steers the mind towards release.1 hr 9 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Sensation, Feeling and Energies(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We can establish mindfulness in the body by tracking sensations, feelings and energies.12 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Coming Out Of The Trance(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Our energy gets dragged out and fixated by various outflows (asava). Through widening and softening we can stop constructing the alienated "places" of our dukkha1 hr 3 min
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- Ajahn Sucitto: Elemental Wholeness(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field.20 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Elemental Wholeness -- RECOVERED(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Awareness is a wholistic but differentiated into thought, heart and body intelligences. Through accessing the five elements we begin to return to a unified field. Copy of http://dharmaseed.org/teacher/9/talk/12813 with recovered audio54 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: An Occasion For Gathering In The Dharma(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) We form a spiritual company and a shared Dharma body when we commit to a retreat with precepts and refuges.47 min
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