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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A: Zigzagging along the Trails of Experience(Villa St Martin Centre) Metta/ divine abidings; verbal phrasing vs. felt sense; skilful humour; contact and the resulting chain; creative activity of the mind59 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: The Wound that Seeks the Arrow(Villa St Martin Centre) Ajahn Sucitto explores the unskilful tendency to create an "I am" with reference to mental programs (sankharas), despite the unwholesome effect that this identification creates. We can learn to release the process between perception and activation so these programs no longer have a place to stand58 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A: Taking Responsibility for our Practice(Villa St Martin Centre) Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on sexual energy and fantasies; resistance to pain; feelings, memory and perception; planning and mental rehearsing / fantasizing1 hr
- Ajahn Sucitto: A Head with No Body(Villa St Martin Centre) How to loosen the grip of the hindrances; realizing that we have a natural energetic body, and how seeing the body as an energy system can support our understanding of the Dhamma58 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Stopping the Spider on Amphetamines(Villa St Martin Centre) Releasing ourselves from our habitual tendencies of compulsion, of having to do, and creating a resting place for the mind to pause1 hr 5 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Learning How to Operate at 5 Decibels(Villa St Martin Centre) An explanation of hindrances and how they are conditioned by sense contact but amplified to fantastic proportions by shared social contact, “from 5 to 50 decibels”55 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Letting Go of the Meditator(Villa St Martin Centre) How to maintain the meditation; in Ajahn Sucitto’s words, “meditation is easy – it’s the meditator that complicates everything”. File has been edited for audio quality.48 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A: A Pearl of Hatred and the Phantom of Perception(Villa St Martin Centre) Ajahn Sucitto answers questions on anger and revenge for past hurts; wholesome grieving; resistance to letting go of unskilful behaviours57 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Mindfulness and Experiencing a Living Being(Villa St Martin Centre) A truly excellent exploration of mindfulness, what it’s about, and how to get our minds around it59 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q & A: Parami; Luang Por Chah; the Busy Mind(Villa St Martin Centre) Ajahn Sucitto answers questions from the retreatants on various subjects, including patience, determination, and peace1 hr 3 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