Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)

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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center) episodes

  • Ajahn Sucitto: Day 3 Q&A
    (Cittaviveka) Other people’s suffering; what is meant by ‘non-self’; remaining with love when one feels constricted and out of control; cause of excessive burping; please talk about the perception-feeling saṇkhāra processes; the purpose of sensing space around; body scanning to train the mind.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Returning to Surface
    (Cittaviveka) Whatever arises from the depth, it’s not yourself. It’s citta territory – nothing to fight with, claim or stir yourself up with. Stay with the center, the quality of uprightness and the ground from which it arises.
    16 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Wholeness and Fragmentation
    (Cittaviveka) Upright is both a physical and psychological feature. We can feel the balance, and if attention is sustained there, afflictive energies pass through –confusion transmutes into sanity. Because of ignorance we lose touch with wholeness, energy scatters and spills out through the khandas. Return to the wholeness, extend love and gentleness. Linger in skillful perceptions and the heart will reform itself in line with those meanings.
    1 hr
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Puja – Coming into Uprightness
    (Cittaviveka) The upright is both an anatomical and psychological reference. It’s from the upright that we deepen, moving through difficult territories without getting hooked, arriving at places of authenticity and clarity. Puja offers an occasion for opening and deepening.
    47 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation - Deepen and Breathe
    (Cittaviveka) Begins with standing posture, aligning the posture so muscles can relax deeply. Flows into sitting posture without breaking the deepening process. Energies from the depth rise up and concoct scenarios that carry the flavor of what’s unresolved – passion, despair, worry. Breathe through it, cooling and steadying the energy in your body.
    35 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Love, Breathing and Life – an Outline
    (Cittaviveka) An introduction to the theme of the retreat that redefines traditional meanings of love, breathing and life. Breathing provides the foundation from which we can open to circumstance without fighting, without grabbing. And isn’t this what love is? Just staying with the restrictions, not asking for anything, just flowing through. This is what it means to live a meaningful life – to meet and show up for this experience.
    50 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: How to Use the Body
    (Cittaviveka) Instructions for establishing an upright, open posture where you can relax and let breathing happen. The body recognizes that. When the body is relaxed and peaceful, mind sees things clearly. Introduction to chanting as a means for expressing our faith and aspirations. This is how to set up a meditation temple in your own body.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A
    (Cittaviveka) Cultivating mental/emotional equilibrium – drowsiness, other people. Energies – how to sense subtle body, body sways in meditation, standing meditation, qigong, kundalini. Do we need goals in life; fear and anxiety; physical pain devoid of mental pain; advice about becoming a nun.
    44 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.