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: Liberation through Non-Clinging
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Our reality is assembled from selected material that comes through the sense bases. As a result of craving and clinging, consciousness lands on particularly poignant material and continues the cycle of becoming and rebirth. Citta can be trained to handle material with dispassion rather than craving, awareness rather than clinging. The release of consciousness can be known.
    24 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: The Wisdom of Walking and of Sheepdogs
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) There are 3 kinds of wisdom: discernment, skillful means and realization. Walking meditation and appropriate mindfulness are skillful means for cultivation. Together they bring around a stewarding akin to that of the sheepdog that moves within the flock, not outside it. This results in the deep harmony of samādhi.
    51 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation: Sensitizing to the Direct Experience of the Body
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A guided meditation through the Ānāpānasati sutta. Establishing a comfortable, upright posture, incline awareness toward direct experience of the body. Sustain appropriate mindfulness and citta will sensitize to the qualities we call 'body’. This exercise resets the mind, which is then gladdened, steadied and cleared so that insight can develop.
    56 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Samādhi – A Step Outside the Personal Footprint
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Samādhi is entered into dependent on the ripening of other factors. It gives us a place to stand outside of the personal perspective. The process of stepping out requires meeting the painful and unresolved in the body, then calming and soothing the heart.
    58 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Making Use of the Power of Mindfulness
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Mindfulness is an empowered awareness that exerts authority over dukkha. Mindfulness doesn’t contract or become agitated by it. Holding steady and curtailing proliferation, it provides the proper laboratory within which wisdom can arise.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Puja – A Daily Going Forth
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Puja provides an occasion to step out of our personal lives. The gesture of offering and dedicating trains citta to open rather than grasp. The unfolding of citta reveals awareness.
    12 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Viriya – The Cultivation of Energy
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Energy has to be cultivated as a resource for practice. This process has three stages: gathering, specific application, and the strength that can release obstacles. The thinking mind uses energy but cannot generate it; energy is generated in the heart (citta) and in the body. Apply energy to empty out the negative and unskillful – the good and bright will arise on its own.
    55 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Training in Direct Knowing
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Sati – mindfulness – is only mentioned once in the Ānāpānasati sutta. ‘Directly feeling and knowing’ – pajānati – is the mode of practice. When we’ve attuned to this, we move to ‘training’. This phase of ānāpānasati begins with training in deeper sensitivity of the entire body.
    23 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: Wisdom as Know-How
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Wisdom is the know-how faculty that discerns suffering and its end. It knows how the 3 intelligences (verbal, emotional, bodily) can work together to bring about the stilling of saṇkhāras. From it noble knowledge – realization – arises.
    56 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.