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: 28 The Luminous Citta
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The aggregates themselves are not problematic, it’s our blind, desperate clinging to them that causes suffering. It’s possible for citta to radiate into the aggregates and into our lives. First what’s needed is the act of withdrawing into a place of refuge to collect and gather. Then the act of integration, bringing qualities of calm, kindness, resolve into our spee
    28 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 27 Don’t Go into Things until You Can Stay Out of Them
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) We need firm ground to stand on before meeting the difficulties of our lives. Without that firm place, the difficulties don’t unravel –you unravel. With cultivation of the five spiritual faculties – indriyas – they become rock solid, enabling us to stand back from experience and allow it to unravel and pass.
    42 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 26 Fields as a Way of Experiencing Phenomena
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In a field of experience, qualities that are assumed to be other people, entities or myself because of the way they’re stuck together can be seen as specific factors that are pliable and flexible. “Field awareness” means a wider span of attention where suppressed, unnoticed, unresolved energies can arise and be discharged, purifying the bodily field.
    17 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 25 What Sustains a Steady Heart Energy?
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Compulsive problematic activations can be replaced with conscious deliberate ones aimed at liberation. Whether in daily activities or in the action of meditation, we can steady and calm energy by orienting around skillful signs – generosity, service, clarity – until the mind is comforted and no longer flowing down old tracks.
    50 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 23 Ānāpānasati – A Model for Cultivation and Freedom
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In the search for happiness, we generally only experience the search, marked by discomfort or desperation. Relationship is key. The instructions for ānāpānasati train us to develop a more dispassionate relationship where we learn to stand in the presence of, or witness from, the edge of experience. From here the right kind of relationship, marked by non-expectation and non-aversion, can be cultivated.
    54 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 22 Leave Space for Miracles
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The cultivation of samatha is to be able to direct one’s intentions and attention away from the afflictive activations, settling into a place where they’re not happening. This place of cooling and ceasing is to be lingered in. Here we come out of the personality and into the realm of the miraculous.
    54 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 20 Review of Four Points for Orientation
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) A review of the four points recommended to orient around: 1) The sacred - virtue and truth, 2) other people, 3) the subtle body/body energies, 4) nature. These are means for becoming more embodied and heartful, and regaining our natural intelligence.
    43 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 19 Q&A
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) How to clear stuck sankharas (greed/overeating, fear); clarifying samatha, vipassana, samādhi; clarifying language: rūpa, nāma-rūpa
    1 hr 3 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.