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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)
Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes
- Ajahn Sucitto: Goodwill- receiving and forming in the domain of metta(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)49 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Respect for the Triple Gem(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Offering myself to bring forth citta – awareness. This prepared the ground for skillfulness and the willingness to meet hindrances.23 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Cultivating the Measureless leads to release(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The ‘measureless’ domains of goodwill are based on disengagement from ill will, fear and desire. Defense against harm changes to protecting the beautiful heart from confused reactions.56 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Mutual Individuality(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Becoming a ‘true individual’ occurs when goodwill and sharing take the lead over ‘personal obsession’ and programs based on fear and desire. ‘Sharing blessings’ is a skillful meditation.21 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.1 hr
- Ajahn Sucitto: Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.31 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Mindfulness for Liberation: from Breathing to the Four Noble Truths(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Mindfulness as a practice begins with bare attention to sense – contact, establishing safety, ground and balance. Breathing trains us in terms of proper attunement. This non-grasping awareness gives fruition in the Four Noble Truths.1 hr 6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: The Process and Development of Spiritual Authorities [ Indriya ](Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) The 5 indriya arise from the grounded citta – they lead the meditation process. Without these we unnecessarily re-activate samsaric processes: perfectionism, projection, self-criticism. Get on the right track!58 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Reflection on Citta as Responsive Sentiency(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Our awareness touches and responds. To set it in line with Dhamma, we use the occasion to bring forth, to offer heart – so that it can open. This is Dhamma practice, Sangha is the human individual quality of our subsequent endeavor.21 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation on Breathing(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Get the body grounded, set the spine, sense the balance. Trace the rhythm of breathing, apply some tuning, let its energy spread through the body. Enjoy.21 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