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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A 2(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Environmental crisis; addictive patterning; kamma; firm center; fear and pragmatic security.47 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: How I Became a Monk(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) In response to yogi questions, Ajahn Sucitto recounts how he became a monk.41 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Addressing the Causal (Energy) Field(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Commands and pressure compress energy. The result is the cannonball drive through life – unreceptive, driven and numb. Learn to cultivate energy properly. Go to the body – extend, widen, soften. View the causal field as it is, not as self.1 hr 6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Sweeping Energy & Space around the Body(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) It takes time for the bodily energy to unfold upon waking. Don’t go into your mind. Give attention to extending and spreading the body’s energy field. Pay particular attention to the sense of space.36 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Awareness Has No Boundaries(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Meditation is based on the fact that mind can open and encompass the whole world of experience. Gathering energy and awareness into the here and now, and unhooking from the contents of consciousness establishes a very firm center that is also open. The result is unbound awareness.1 hr 6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: The Causal Field and the Escape from It(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) All experience is caused by something – it’s conditioned. We act based on these causes and conditions, reinforcing their hold. But there are particular actions that can bring about release from this causal continuum.55 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Content and Container(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) All content needs a container. Content of heart shapes the container of experience. Supportive tones/perceptions are skilful content. They encourage a generous, spacious and cool container that allows tangled mental content to unravel.1 hr 5 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Walking Meditation: Open and Moored to a Firm Center(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Practice with keeping the front center of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm center.6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Walking Meditation: Open and Moored to a Firm Center(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Practice with keeping the front center of the body open, as if the skin boundary is feeling and reading the movement through space. Mind opens, drops some of its congestion. Thought patterns can be ventilated. Most important is to remain open and moored to a firm center.6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 5 Indriya(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) The mind gets taken over by defective programs causing imbalance. This imbalance is called dukkha. The Buddha introduced a graduated way to shift this imbalance. This process brings up indriya, spiritual faculties. These help to mediate the tendencies of craving and clinging and result in a greater sense of harmony and balance.40 min
About Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
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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