Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)

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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes

  • Ajahn Sucitto: Training The Mind In The Renunciant Form
    (Cittaviveka) Training in renunciation helps us know that nothing belongs to us except for kamma. What’s important is knowing what is skillful and unskillful, and to keep setting aside what’s not skillful. Come to know when the mind is coming from purity or confusion. Faith is a support in the midst of confusion and overwhelm.
    21 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Simple Awareness
    (Cittaviveka) Recollecting the Buddha’s awakening, we also sit, firmly, simply. When the forces of thought and feeling come, we sit peacefully, refusing to fight, run away or get involved. Letting it all move through, where is the stillness? Clarity is the mark of awakened ones, knowing exactly what is arising – naming it, sensing it.
    50 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: It All Comes Back To Awareness
    (Cittaviveka) Awareness is one of the fundamental properties of mind. The practice of meditation is just bearing witness to what affects mind with a quality of primary openness. Bearing with experience and, rather than referring it to reactions or views or opinions, referring it awareness.
    40 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Fundamental Openess - Understanding Faith
    (Cittaviveka) Openness, the willingness to meet what arises, is one of our basic resources as human beings. The ability to open what is pleasant and unpleasant alike, knowing we can benefit, learn from it, gives a certain confidence. Mindfulness of body is our workshop to cultivate that ability to open to and bear with painful feeling. Not resisting or fighting it, just sustaining awareness and knowing it for what it is.
    22 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Mindfulness Of The Body
    (Cittaviveka) Mindfulness means looking more carefully. As we sustain attention on an object, we can begin to discern how we get caught and how we get free. Body as a foundation for mindfulness can mean mindfulness of breathing in and out, the elements, walking up and down, the unattractive parts, or contemplating a dead body. A review of several of these practices is given.
    34 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Viriya - Resources And Applications
    (Cittaviveka) A reflection on the faculty of energy and how to apply it skillfully. Energy for investigation that leads to wisdom, energy for devotion and aspiration that uplifts the heart, energy for mindfulness of body that results in calm and insight.
    24 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Five Spiritual Faculties
    (Cittaviveka) These 5 faculties when cultivated and developed merge in the deathless. Faith, energy, concentration, mindfulness, wisdom. These are faculties we all have, but they may be poorly developed. Guidance is given for how to touch into these and strengthen them.
    29 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Refer It To Awareness
    (Cittaviveka) One particular faculty of mind is ability of step back and review the noise of the mind. It’s an amazingly remedial quality, to be able to hold our doubts and difficulties in this way. You don’t get an answer, but you get a result. The deconstruction of suffering, of stress.
    48 min

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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.