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: 13: The Aim of One-pointedness
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) One-pointedness, ekaggata, is a later development. The first aim is to get settled, to meet and dispel crankiness, negativity, craving. One-pointedness arrives after these are dispelled.
    29 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 11: Walking Meditation
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) First establish bodily presence. Notice how the leg lifts and moves. Keep the eyes soft. Experience the wave-like motion - it feels good! Allow what’s been difficult or closed to arise and walk it out.
    5 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 09: Q&A: Am I Wasting My Opportunity Staying As a Lay Person?
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) Ajahn Sucitto responds to this question by first reframing it – rather than thinking: here’s the real world, how can I fit my practice into that? Consider: here’s the real practice, what kind of world can I operate in from that place? The reality that’s available to us all, regardless of place or position as monastic or lay person, is refuge. And the real refuge is in your presence. Be a refuge unto yourself.
    46 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 15: The Root Perception of Change
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) There are many things one can cultivate in meditation. There is craft, what can be learned. And there is art, what can’t be taught. Follow your nose, where’s your interest? Notice the difference between awareness and consciousness. Place an object in space, experience the object with dispassion.
    36 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 14: It’s Just a Movement
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) Puja is a time for offering, for being received into a quality of blessedness and welcome, just as you are. The mind searches for directions – all reasonable, but don’t follow it. Notice the energy of the movement that’s occurring now – no future, no past.
    8 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 08: Return, Return, Return
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) The energy body is a particular fullness of being – this is citta. As it’s more completed, it becomes less obstructed. Take time to gather and center in the completed citta, even if it’s just for a few minutes. Meditation means to return time and time again.
    9 min
  • Ajahn Sucitto: 06: A Quality of Deep Attention
    (Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) The key to the Buddha’s awakening was his use of appropriate attention. Attention is either grounded in the right place or the wrong place, it’s one or the other. The lens of attention and the attitudes we bring to it are extremely significant. It matters how we are seeing things. Our attention is very potent. Whatever you attend to – doubt or confidence, aversion or goodwill – you’ll get more of it. Attention is an amplifier.
    53 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.