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: Asalha Puja – Middle Path
    (Cittaviveka) We can get sidetracked with a focus on mindfulness or stress reduction or meditation techniques. We don’t understand what leads up to them, the Noble 8-Fold Path. This Path begins with right view - knowing the heart and how it’s affected - and right effort - bringing up skillful mindstates.
    1 hr 9 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Closing: Keeping Citta Fit for Practice
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) There are places where the mind slips and slides into injurious patterns, subtle points of misconduct that do harm. Develop qualities of sīla to guard and protect the citta, shaping it according to Dhamma rather than to worldliness or old kamma.
    35 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Sharing the Blessing
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The Offering of Truth: After making the dedication of offerings, a guided meditation that invites the qualities of generosity is provided. Through this, we recall what we’ve received from teachers, parents, the earth – and the challenges that have caused us to grows. As we recollect, we offer our ongoing aspiration.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Associating with Good People
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Associating with good people is the nutriment that leads to true knowledge and liberation. We learn what’s most important from other people, not from books and ideas. To find good people, start by being one.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Unbiased and Unwavering Heart (Upekkhā)
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Cultivating equanimity (upekkhā) begins with touching into primal sympathy. As this develops, we are more able to meet experience without shrinking from it or becoming feverish for it. This paves the way for insight and release.
    1 hr 1 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Learning to Linger and Appreciate (Muditā)
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Liberation begins with appreciation of one’s own heart, one’s sensitivity. Learn to linger in it, and speak to it with kindness. Gladness and ease naturally arise, and the mind becomes concentrated. This is the natural Dhamma process.
    1 hr
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Begin with Intention
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wherever intention is, there is citta. So we begin formal meditation practice there, establishing intentions based on goodwill, sensitivity and relinquishment. With these themes resonating in one’s heart, what can be put aside now?
    1 hr 1 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Strengthening through Compassion (Karuṇā)
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Citta is made stronger and deeper through cultivating patience and resolution. It gains an imperturbable stillness and serenity that lets things pass through. Steady in the face of the pleasant and unpleasant alike, this ‘soft strength’ refuses to give way to the tides of ill will.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Integration through Goodwill (Mettā)
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The territories of the somatic field and qualities of goodwill are offered as a clear, firm foundation for wisdom. Having cultivated them on retreat, we need to integrate liberation, purity and goodwill into our lives.
    1 hr 4 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.