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- Ajahn Sucitto: Path: Kamma and it’s ending – in body and mind(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Citta moves through Kamma, not through space-time. It is triggered by ‘old Kamma’ – perceptions, attitudes, personality programs. It keeps recreating these unless there is direct insight – the Kamma that ends Kamma.1 hr 6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Reflection on the Four Noble Truths(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Building up the strength to meet dukkha: moving out of habitual support systems, give oneself fully to citta and somatic presence.48 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q & A(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Pain, drowsiness, ethical integrity (in a non-ethical world), nature as a model for humans.42 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Rewilding the Wasteland ; the Arising of the Five Indriya(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) From the “Wasteland” of samsara, (which is generated by ignorance and craving), a natural arising of spiritual strength can occur – if we ‘touch the ground’ of truth and empathy.56 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Standing Meditation – Finding the Somatic Body(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Standing can put us in touch with somatic intelligence as: balance, as cohesion. Gradually the felt sense of body re-forms as a mid-line central stillness and as peripheral sensitivities and openness.22 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Puja: Participation not Observation(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Devotional practice works through including us in bodily, verbal, and heartful actions. Words and concepts are secondary to images and romances. Images of Buddha hands carry deep meaning.27 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Accessing ‘Ground’ – Unconditional Acceptance(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Awareness is often beset with thoughts, emotions, and narratives that cause a ‘jump’ into conceptual proliferation. With unconditional acceptance we hold awareness as a non-reactive ‘pool’ that receives and resonates with mind-stuff but doesn’t react.14 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Citta and a person meet in the body.(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Citta is occluded by not knowing its freedom. Citta enters the sensory condition, is ‘born’, develops a person to meet ‘the other’. Here is dukkha and personal responses to that don’t work, but dukkha can be released through citta in the body.1 hr 2 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Standing Meditation: Finding Balance(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Balance is an important aspect of bodily/somatic intelligence. It is alert, free from pressure and sensitive. Attuning to this can bring these qualities into citta.20 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Puja: Devotion as a way of bringing citta into personhood(Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) Use of one’s voice and of giving it to the sacred. Through merging one’s voice and giving into the communal field, citta can rise out of the isolation of personhood.42 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