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- Ajahn Sucitto: 05: Put Aside What’s Unnecessary(Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) The contemplative process is one where you bring to mind simple things and put aside what’s unnecessary, obstructive and irrelevant. Not with aversion, but just noticing that in most of our life we’re moving forward into qualities of pressure, important business, people – but they’re only there because your mind put them there. There doesn’t have to be the drive forward, doesn’t have to be a next. Take time to stop and notice what’s not needed, notice what’s already here.14 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 04: Walking without Headism(Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.13 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 03: Feeling the Body(Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) Guidance to settle into the seated posture, relaxing the body, sensing ground and space.5 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 02: Standing meditation - Elements and Directions(Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) What tells you you have a body? Guidance provided to sense the particular signals that tell us we have a body in the forms of elements and directions.14 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: 01: A Harmony of Body and Mind(Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery) Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.28 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: End of Retreat Reflections: Four Reference Points(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg) Ajahn Sucitto leaves the group with four reference points to continue relating to as we leave retreat: relating to embodiment, to people, to earth and to the sacred. Themes of pausing, subjectivity and respect run through.33 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Early Morning Reflections: Don’t Go into Automatic – What’s Beautiful Now?(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg) An automatic quality can take over as we practice. It happens when we retain the past: I am this, I had this experience, I want to have another experience… Instead we can arise and awaken into this body even when it’s not so comfortable and bright. Receive everything as a gift, as something new. Access what’s beautiful now.13 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: I Teach Pleasure(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg) The Buddha taught pleasure. When the mind feels safe and comforted, it doesn’t crave. It loses its fear and regret. This is pleasant. Sila helps us practice this skill of turning things to the subtle pleasure of releasing stress and pressure. We stop creating the boundary of self and other that prevents unification. To others as to myself.1 hr 3 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Qigong Instructions: Cow, Crane & Dragon(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg) Warming up feet, legs, hips, arms; kwa squats; drawing the thread (shoulder opening); cow gazing at the moon; crane spreads its wings; punching the dragon; neutral position48 min
- Ajahn Sucitto: Teaching on Embodiment and Guided Meditation – Descending from the Top of Your Brain to the Basin of Your Heart(Meditationszentrum Beatenberg) As we meditate, we might find ourselves dropping through layers of experience. Bits that are stuck and not yet resolved keep getting triggered. What we thought was past keeps coming in – people, places, events – and it’s happening now. But there is something that doesn’t move forward in time, a foundational experience of just being present. From this place of primary embodiment, where citta meets the body, we can begin to release the layers of construction that bind us.1 hr 2 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.
Sitting in a field of fifty to eighty people really starts my mind sparking. Since I don't prepare my talks ahead of time, I find myself listening to what I'm saying along with everyone else. This leaves a lot of room for the Dhamma to come up. Just having eighty people listening to me is enough to engage me, stimulate me, and create a nice flow of energy. The actual process of teaching evokes ideas that even I did not realize were being held somewhere in my mind.
Different teaching situations offer their own unique value. In retreat, you are able to build a cohesive and comprehensive body of the teachings. When people are not on retreat and come for one session, it opens a different window. They are more spontaneous and I'm given the chance to contact them in ways that are closer to their "daily-life mind." This brings up surprises and interesting opportunities for me to learn even more.
I'm continually struck by how important it is to establish a foundation of morality, commitment, and a sense of personal values for the Vipassana teachings to rest upon. Personal values have to be more than ideas. They have to actually work for us, to be genuinely felt in our lives. We can't bluff our way into insight. The investigative path is an intimate experience that empowers our individuality in a way that is not egocentric. Vipassana encourages transpersonal individuality rather than ego enhancement. It allow for a spacious authenticity to replace a defended personality.
I normally incorporate Qi Gong instruction in my retreats. They are not suitable as audio files but you can watch the nine videos here: https://tinyurl.com/Sucitto-qigong