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: Gentling The Mind
    (Cittaviveka) Cultivating a softer happier state of being is valuable in its own right, and also has a profound purpose – to release mental programs that bind us and restrict us, so we can experience a greater sense of ease and freedom.
    37 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Transcendence Includes It All
    (Cittaviveka) The process of liberation is sometimes referred to as ‘transcendence’. Transcendence means you meet feeling, and mind gets bigger than that, includes it all. It is a natural mode of the mind, to meet and include. Enlightenment factors enable this stepping back and non-involvement. We can then meet the results of kamma and realize liberation.
    1 hr
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Inherited Kamma-Broadening The Range Of Practice
    (Cittaviveka) In general, practice is about creating the type of environment which can hold, accommodate and handle our kamma – whether that is internal and external. Enlightenment factors work to dissolve the encrusted compulsive reactions. Then we have more space, more choice in what we do and don’t do.
    37 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Knowing Through Dispassion
    (Cittaviveka) Mindfulness offers the ability to sustain, to notice, and therefore to be wise. Through this we can experience feelings that arise as energy in the body. Stepping back, there is a shift from being in these to a knowingness of them, with resultant dispassion. This is the liberating process of insight.
    38 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Generating Skilful Feeling
    (Cittaviveka) Mindfulness is about knowing how one is affected. We come to know where impulses and intentions/motivations come from, whether these are spiritual or worldly. With skilful intention, there is the possibility to generate pleasant feeling within ourselves. We can find joy in our own presence rather than through external means.
    35 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: A Step Towards The Transcendant
    (Cittaviveka) This teaching describes the running of psycho-somatic ‘programs’ (saṇkhārā ) – in terms of those that are default and those we can intentionally induce. In this way, in meditation, we develop skills that can change our psychological patterns. The method is: first step back from the torrent of mind; then, cultivate enlightenment factors.
    44 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Energy,view and Anapansati
    (Cittaviveka) When the mind is relieved from pressure, we can review the experience of what’s running through the mind, feeling the changes in terms of somatic energy. This energy body has primary intelligence, and retains learnt impressions. Through mindfulness of breathing, we calm and soothe this energy body – with resultant clarity.
    38 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.