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: 08 Resourcing the Faculty of Heart, Our Responsive Capacity
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Phenomena that are mutable, not solid, and dependently arisen become experienced as fixed and solid by unconscious grasping and holding on. The relationship is then one of fixation. A more mature relationship is not based on eliminating displeasure but on responsiveness and flexibility. With practice one can feel comfortable with things that are uncomfortable.
    59 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 07 Intention - a Property of Citta
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Meditation practice instructs us to sustain harmonious relationship with our minds, bodies and the world – to not be dominating, not to grasp or push away, but to be present. Sometimes an open accepting awareness, rather than a focus on a particular object, is the proper mode. When mental and body energies are in sync there’s a sense of harmony and unification. This is samādhi.
    32 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 05 The Wisdom Faculty
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) The search for happiness, security and steadiness binds us in a tangle of stressful and unsatisfactory experiences – because we’re looking in the wrong place. Wisdom/discernment helps us detangle and discern what to set aside and what is worth bearing in mind.
    53 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 04 Calm and Discernment Work in Tandem
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) Discernment helps filter from the amalgam of experience what’s skillful now. Having picked up what is skillful one lingers in it, dwells in it, sustains it. This is calming. So skim off stressful habits of “trying to make it work”, “getting on to the next”. Use the body to learn what the mind is happy to linger in.
    21 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 03 Regaining Our Natural Intelligence
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) In meditation both the topic and the manner in which we attend can help train our mode of mental engagement. Shifting from stressful tendencies of “making it happen” and “getting it right”, come back to the natural body. This living system is the source for a steady, safe and easeful state.
    38 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 02 Going for Refuge - Reorientation of Citta
    (Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge) What is it that we need to take Refuge from? The poisons of greed, hatred and delusion that mask themselves and corrupt our hearts and minds. This requires reorienting from worldly ways and orienting around what has value and meaning, that which you can trust: virtue, embodiment, nature and other people.
    59 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 21 Day 6 Closing talk: The Smallest Unit in the Cosmos is Two
    (New York Insight Meditation Center) When we reflect on the nature of fields, we notice everything is a duality. How we relate in this twosome is the practice. Unskillful latent tendencies are revealed in relationship, giving us an opportunity to clear them. Kalyāṇamitta (spiritual friendship) is essential. It’s only others that can show us what we don’t see in ourselves.
    33 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.