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: Duties towards Dhamma in Lay Life
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) As we return to the duties of lay life, we are encouraged to incorporate duties towards the Dhamma. Structure in reference points that remind you to be mindful and skillful – daily meditation, association with kalyāṇamitta, and cultivation of pāramī are recommended. Be vigilant, stay awake, don’t go into automatic. If you don’t shape your own life, the world will shape it for you.
    1 hr 7 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Four Brahmavihāras
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) The 4 measureless states serve as powerful gates out of the personalized realm. They guide our actions and responses, making it possible to shift our kamma by generating new patterns. Their cultivation results in physical health, vitality, happiness, good friendship and serene heart.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: It’s the Tone that Counts
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) The habituated ways of the personality – craving to become good enough, burdened with self-criticism and fear – won’t bring about liberation. Citta, that which can be liberated, becomes available when the tone of our lives is warm, encouraging, compassionate. Relax the doing and tune into the receptive. The theme of practice is to feel comfortable.
    1 hr 3 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Only Resolution Is Letting Go
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) We live in an options culture, we’re used to getting our own way. We repeatedly give in to rāga, passions. Not the passions of liking things, but of feeling deeply stirred and agitated. In Dhamma practice, rather than adjusting the world to suit us, we adjust citta to form a harmonious, non-attached relationship to phenomena. This is how we develop pāramī.
    52 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A 3
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Body scanning; stuck areas; mental proliferation; ‘commander’ and ‘do-er’ aspects of mind; appropriate objects of meditation; thoughts that arise during ānāpānasati; dealing with hinderances; restlessness
    1 hr 9 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Comments on Walking
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) We’re so conditioned to keep moving on to the next, the mind has already moved on before the foot has completed its step. Practice as if there’s no next. Tune into the fluid, easy movement of the whole body. Let the mind settle into samādhi.
    12 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Body Sweeping
    (Uttama Bodhi Vihara) Guided meditations can help in terms of timing, to demonstrate just how slow a process meditation is. Generally, the object of meditation is simple, it’s the handling of it that’s the skill. Body sweeping develops receptivity of the body. One cultivates tonal qualities of receptivity and care.
    50 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.