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- Ajahn Sucitto: 05 Guided Meditation: Where Do I Find Meaning?(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Take a simple word or theme and bring it into the heart. Holding it, sensing it and asking what’s most meaningful? When you take the word into your heart, what happens?33 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 04 Walking Instructions: Can You Move without a “There”?(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Our walking is generally to get “there,” which carries with it a certain quality of distress. Instead, try walking without a “there”. Check the mental constructions of destination- including a ‘spiritual’ one - instead pay attention to how the body walks. It’s more peaceful that way!8 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 02 Clearing Toxins of the Heart Through Body(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The heart and mind are susceptible to toxins that drive action and infect intention. In the body we find a trustworthy orientation – a reliable source for knowing how it is now.1 hr 1 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 06 Using Thought for Recollection(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Dhamma practice is generally marked by a tangle of thoughts. But thought can be used for recollection. Taking words into the heart, we consider what has meaning, what serves as refuge, setting distractions aside.39 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 03 Standing Meditation: The Body Seeks Harmony(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Guidance to help the body come into natural harmony. Notice the effects ground, space and breathing in the body. When the body feels safe, the skin boundary loosens and armor comes off.29 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 01 Precepts: Something You Can Always Do(Madison Insight Meditation Group) You can’t always “do” pleasant mindstates or an easeful body. Precepts are always available to enact as a way of practice.16 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 24 Closing: Unfolding Your Dhamma Field and Carrying It Within(Insight Retreat Center) We entered retreat as “personal packages” that unfolded into a collective field of Dhamma. This field has immense capacity to hold wholesome potencies beyond the world of space and time. We can continue to enrich and access this field after leaving the retreat form as support for our ongoing Dhamma practice.21 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 23 Guided Meditation: Distilling and Dwelling in Your Dhamma Potential(Insight Retreat Center) Imagining there is only an hour left to live, recollect what has been meaningful and of value. The word just acts as the suitcase, then we have to open it and get a feeling for it in the heart and body.25 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 22 Q&A: Relational Snags, Power of Resolve, Liberation from Clinging(Insight Retreat Center) Why did you become a monk; the place of women in this lineage; relational snags; strengthening pāramīs; what survives death; stream entry; identifying is another word for clinging; responses to the group process exercises1 hr 11 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 21 The Skill of Thinking: Allowing the Heart to Speak(Insight Retreat Center) Instructions for restraining the human tendency to dominate. Learning to set up the right relationship and allow experience to speak for itself. Only after the truth is spoken can there be silence.59 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