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: Signs, distorted or uplifting
    (Cittaviveka) In cultivation we’re learning to experience things directly as they really are. We come to understand that we are moved and triggered by signs, not things. A lot of practice is about turning attention away from unskillful signs and cultivating skillful ones – cooperation, generosity, goodness. Then you’ve got something precious that takes you through difficult places and makes you feel comfortable when you’re in a bleak state.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Triggers and leaks
    (Cittaviveka) We are triggered by phenomena, and all kinds of turbulent emotions and reactions can result. But how does it all happen? We use wise attention to investigate the source, where things rise up from. A strong citta needs to be cultivated so you can review how stuff affects you. You have a choice in this: responsiveness or compulsiveness.
    41 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Wisdom moves from stillness
    (Cittaviveka) We usually associate change with lots of moving around, but deep change comes through stillness. It’s associated with pleasure – not sense pleasure but heart pleasure. It’s a shift to learn to pause and lift from the engagement. Citta’s qualities come through in this stillness and we can meet what arises with openness and goodwill.
    37 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Independence from conditions
    (Cittaviveka) How to meet the problematic nature of conditioned experience without becoming overwhelmed? From a steady heart and mind phenomena can be investigated. We learn what affects us, what is for our welfare and what to let go of. This is how we begin to become independent from conditions: we develop a different center.
    47 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Right effort = responsibility with energy
    (Cittaviveka) Energy is a constant fact of life. If you don’t apply it, it gets applied – there’s no neutral place. Be responsible. That’s what right effort means, constantly taking responsibility for where your energy goes. It’s an act of heedfulness and careful attention – choose what you want to abide in.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Web of goodness
    (Cittaviveka) We live in a human context with its mixture of bright and discordant energies. Our individual internal contexts are no different. We cultivate to potentize Dhamma factors for our own benefit and the benefit of the world. Grounding in wholesome qualities and steadiness of body, we find a raft in this very flooded swampy saṁsāra from which we can meet and review the flood of emotions and impulses.
    37 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: A vehicle for liberation
    (Chicago Theosophical Society) We can reach into that which is bigger than our personal form, where we don’t feel the separation, we feel held by something that never leaves us – the boundless heart. We’re never totally closed, we just have scar tissue, and it can be brought back to life. This is the medium – lovingkindness, compassion, measureless, unrestricted. This is a vehicle for transformation and liberation from being identified from the world of circumstance.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A
    (Chicago Theosophical Society) (1:20) Returning to the unfettered after restriction; (6:22) romantic love; (8:50) holding in between breathing in and out; (13:31) feelings of restriction; (16:37) where emotions tend to arise in the body; (19:20) mind is easily distracted.
    23 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Let the heart express itself
    (Chicago Theosophical Society) Love can come to be seen as a reward for good boys and girls. But it’s not a reward, and it’s not a social courtesy. It’s unfettered receptivity to the felt experience of being human. Gently removing barriers and setting aside distortions, stay steady with the natural trembling of being touched and let the heart express itself.
    24 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.