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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley) episodes
- Ajahn Sucitto: Morning Instructions: Tactile & Somatic Awareness(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) An aspect of our Kammic patterning is the mode of consciousness that is selected to process experience—normally this is visual or conceptual. If we use the tactile consciousness it has an emotive resonance and truer response.47 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Embodiment: Handling Dukkha(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) By spreading awareness through the "field" of the body, we can establish a ground to limit, curtail and discharge the Dukkha of life.1 hr 2 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Embodied Language - The Elements(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.54 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Breathing - The Kamma Of Meditation(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Meditation as a way of purifying Kamma - brings clarity, assurance, and good heart in a simple, intimate way.50 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Non-Attachment Is Presence, Not Absence(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Non-attachment is not to be confused with avoidance, spacing out, losing connection to what is happening.55 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Breathing, Body, Speech, & Mind(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Embodying the mind - mindfulness of body - counteracts the effects of "loss" (ignorance). Loss is loss of presence - accompanied by either tightening or collapsing.1 hr 10 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Recollection Of Death And Of Buddha(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) Recollection connects the thinking mind and heart and generates felt values for inspiration, clarity, and blessing.51 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Overview Of Embodied Mind(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) "Citta" - The center of awareness extends through thinking, emotion, and somatic senses. Dhamma practice covers all these.1 hr 6 min
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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