Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes

  • Ajahn Sucitto: A Breath of Kindness to the Kammic Field
    (Cittaviveka) Kamma is a feedback loop of actions and results, out of which comes the experience of ‘me’. We use meditation to step out of the scenarios, recognize the process and change the patterns. Once you see it, you get the meaning – ‘a suffering being’– and the response is sympathy. Use the energy of breathing to calm and clear afflictive states, replacing them with healing.
    42 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Upright Mind, Upright Body
    (Cittaviveka) Bring attention to where body and mind come together in the upright. Upright is not just anatomical, but energetic – where you feel balanced, poised, wakeful. Relax the stress in body and mind with the calming effects of breathing. As mental and bodily energies gather and steady around the center, citta can rest here, and begin to experience its collectedness.
    47 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Forgiveness and Gratitude
    (Cittaviveka) Suffering tends to isolate us into a small tight heap forming around a particular topic. In this narrow field we lose access to gladness, self-acceptance, and forgiveness. Breathing through the agitating energies, feel them as just that – it’s not personal, we can rise above. Willing to touch what’s difficult with gladness, we can meet the failing world without getting upset.
    41 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Asalha Puja – The Middle Way of Practice
    (Cittaviveka) The Buddha teaches the middle way between the extremes. This quality of balance extends from right view, the recognition that actions extend beyond oneself – into the world around, to other people; it sets up what develops next for oneself. It matters which way the mind dips. Stay upright in that center that deepens into samādhi and wisdom, extending goodwill and clarity across whatever we contact and touch.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Right View Supports Right Mindfulness
    (Cittaviveka) When mindfulness is based on right view, there is understanding of skillful and unskillful mind-states and the effects they give rise to. Otherwise mindfulness is merely attention. Right mindfulness, established firmly in the body, has the quality of steadiness and stillness, witnessing and non-involvement with phenomena. Mindfulness is about returning to body and breathing – ground, space, center.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Brahmaviharā
    (Cittaviveka) Use of images and recollections to deeply experience the qualities of the brahmaviharā. Keep attention wide, body relaxed, attuned to how things are felt – shifting, moving, and affecting the body. And is it possible to turn any feature of these intentions towards yourself?
    21 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Harvesting the field of Dhamma
    (Cittaviveka) The way to make use of the closure of retreat is to harvest. Standing at the door of the mind, use the body for support to review the stuff of the mind from a balanced place. The upright axis cools the field of reactivity. Witnessing with disengagement, don’t be deceived by what appears internal and external, it’s all happening in the mind.
    1 hr 2 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.