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- Ajahn Sucitto: Refreshing through Posture(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) Practice with opening the body as an energetic formation. Muscles can relax on an upright posture, the boundaries of the bodies can relax. Opening into the surrounding space ventilates stale energies, supporting clearer attitudes and a brighter heart.24 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Clearing Is Renewal(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) We come on retreat to clear the negative, the compulsive, the cluttered. Acknowledging the causal potential to adopt behaviours and attitudes and transmit them to others, there is a need to clear and reset. The warm, safe, cooperative retreat environment allows for new growth after the clearing.40 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Staying in Touch with What’s Meaningful(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) We are encouraged to stay in touch with relationships to values, virtues, that which we hold sacred. Regular recollections of the following are recommended: relationship with the sacred, with one’s body, with other people, with the Earth.19 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Chanting: Buddha’s Words on Lovingkindness(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa)4 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Meaning and Use of Refuges and Precepts(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) The end of retreat brings the occasion to recollect our good actions and results. This is both in terms of what we do and what we refrain from. We also take the opportunity to align to refuges and precepts as a reminder to stay awake.20 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Endnotes on Meditation(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Cultivation of heart and mind extends beyond sitting on the cushion. This core practice of being in your body is a touchstone for sanity and for happiness. Through this we can discharge qualities that can’t be dealt with in daily life. It can be practiced in any posture. Know where the stress is arising, and meet it with a spacious body and accepting heart.35 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A 2(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Environmental crisis; addictive patterning; kamma; firm center; fear and pragmatic security.47 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: How I Became a Monk(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) In response to yogi questions, Ajahn Sucitto recounts how he became a monk.41 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Addressing the Causal (Energy) Field(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) Commands and pressure compress energy. The result is the cannonball drive through life – unreceptive, driven and numb. Learn to cultivate energy properly. Go to the body – extend, widen, soften. View the causal field as it is, not as self.1 hr 6 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Sweeping Energy & Space around the Body(Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo, South Africa) It takes time for the bodily energy to unfold upon waking. Don’t go into your mind. Give attention to extending and spreading the body’s energy field. Pay particular attention to the sense of space.36 min
About Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)
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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