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: Open the Centre, Reset the Boundaries
    (Cittaviveka) Meditation is often approached from the standpoint of a person who ‘does’ the meditating. This self view is not a position that will give rise to calm or release – it’s the condition we want to be released from. Meditation can be used to change the ways we attend that form the separate self. Eventually the steadiness of mindfulness, rather than the ‘I am’ sense’, can become the orientation.
    36 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Happy Misfit
    (Cittaviveka) Citta jumps and rushes towards experience it thinks will bring security. It’s a compulsion, an addiction. But citta can turn, starting with disengagement, then stabilizing and calming. Settle into the happiness of these effects, and you have a good foundation to eliminate the irrational drives and compulsions that cause suffering.
    42 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Opening into Consciousness
    (Cittaviveka) In meditation we rest into what’s always here. Like dropping a net into the river and seeing what we catch, we simply take note with awareness, deep listening and open presence. Use structures and qualities as a skillful tetherings, to turn citta away from the complexity of stimulation, activity and abstraction. When energies are no longer running out, citta settles in itself. This is samādhi.
    39 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Filtering the Flood
    (Cittaviveka) In meditation we practice viewing the stream of circumstance from the place of acknowledgement. Let the stream flow past without getting into the details. Centering practices of body, presence, ethics and heart strengthen the possibility to shift attention from the outflows to here.
    53 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Desperately Seeking Non-desperation
    (Cittaviveka) The tendency to keep running out into concepts eventually results in overload, insecurity, anxiety, collapse. We’re desperately looking for sanity. The steadiness and fulfillment we seek is already here, in the non-conceptual intelligence of body and heart. Rather than going out, return to where body, mind and heart energy come together. In this presence our real home appears.
    57 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Whole Body Awareness
    (Cittaviveka) We may assume, and learn, that meditation is about focusing on details, but the Buddha advocates whole body awareness. Make an exercise of it, extending your awareness. Maintaining attention on the whole body doesn’t allow the mind to fixate – it stays open so the tangles and storms have no place to take hold. Posture, breathing and a receptive mind state all act as supports.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Devotion and Discipline – Dhamma Protectors
    (Sacred Mountain Sangha) The 5 indriya are known as the Dhamma protectors. The complimentary qualities of devotion and discipline balance our approach to cultivation. Recommended is collecting oneself in body which provides leverage on restraining the thinking mind. Embodied intelligence – the inner, esoteric Dhamma – can then be accessed.
    48 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Dhammavicaya - Head and Heart
    (Cittaviveka) There is fundamental puñña – value – in just being human. But citta doesn’t know its value, it gets lost in dreams, worries, passions, opinions. Collect oneself where body, thought and heart come together and investigate – where does the suffering end, where does fulfillment come from? Return to the place of innate value, stability, composure and clarity.
    48 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Ācariya Puja – Aim Your Intentions High
    (Cittaviveka) In Ajahn Chah, we commemorate and honor what’s possible in a human form. A seemingly ordinary person who applied all he had for noble purposes, training in what was difficult and cultivating pāramī. With this comes the severing of the outflows and the liberation of heart, a practice that many people can cultivate while engaging in life.
    1 hr 1 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.