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Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Sucitto
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.
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2018-10-13 15 Day 4 Qi Gong 9:17
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Ajahn Sucitto responds to a question about how he got started with Qi Gong.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-13 14 Day 4 Guided Meditation: Goodwill 23:27
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Citta is moved by images that can be sparked by thought, visual, auditory or somatic/felt experience. This guided meditation accesses these portals to generate receptivity and resonances of goodwill within yourself, then spread them out.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-13 13 Day 4 Morning Instructions: Heart Yoga 48:49
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Relationship is always necessary, always there, whether with other people or with ourselves. To absorb into comfortable relationship, and clear this area from greed, hatred and fear, there has to be a lot of negotiation, the back and forth movement of disengaging, then returning again. This is true yoga of the heart. To keep the heart flexible and responsive, brahmavihārā ‘asanas’ are suggested.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-13 12 Day 4 Morning Puja: Think Short, Listen Long 22:31
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Instruction on disengaging attention from mental contact. Disengagement allows for longer listening time. The quality of listening has a different tone – softer, more open, the ability to be with but not in. That non-engaged space allows for signs of comfort, contentment and gladness to arise. It’s not in the object but in the relationship. Keep re-establishing relationship to the chosen object.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-12 11 Day 3 Evening Puja: Learning to Prefer Dispassion 63:01
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In citta’s maturing process, it goes from seeking stability and comfort in things that can never satisfy, to finding a place of dispassion. It learns that disengagement is preferable to getting fired up, disappointed, humiliated. In this letting go it finally finds the stability and happiness it has been seeking.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-12 10 Day 3 Standing Meditation: Turning in Space 33:41
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After settling and grounding in the standing position, Ajahn Sucitto introduces a slight movement to the posture. Gently turning in space, noticing the effects of the body moving in its energy field, making note of the mental tone – how’s that?
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-12 09 Day 3 Morning instructions: The Dhamma Field – Our True Home 54:54
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We take things personally, but the person is the result of the fields that it encounters. We get shaped by the worldly fields of the business model, of material progress, of ‘faster’ and ‘more’. When we take the Dhamma field as our true origin rather than the worldly or personal field, we access the arising of the search for truth and meaning, and of the capacities to bear with and be accepting, to experience gratitude and generosity. This is our home, and in this we are deeply resourced to meet what comes up.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-12 08 Day 3 Morning Puja: Immersion in the Dhamma Field 25:48
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Being immersed in worldly and personal fields is not a choice, but we can choose to immerse ourselves in the Dhamma field. In it we can meet the problematic painful field of sense contact without collapsing or blocking, but with big heart. Pūjā is an occasion for entering into that field, gaining resources, strength and happiness for the journey.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-11 07 Day 2 Evening Puja: Don’t Follow the Bounce 63:19
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Cultivating Dhamma involves viveka, a certain kind of disengagement primarily from thought and emotional reactivity. As these reactions are running, check their ‘bounce’ – that tendency to deflect or suppress unpleasant feeling. Emotion by itself cannot discharge, but access the emotional state in the body – the body can discharge the emotion.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2018-10-11 06 Day 2 Pausing before “the Next” 8:20
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Transitions points are an opportunity to train one’s reflexes to return to the base – the ground as fundamental orientation. At the moment of reflexive response, pause. The reflex isn’t good or bad, just pause and check it as a habit of training. It can be helpful to rise into a bodily response rather than habit reactive responses. Whatever our intention or purpose can be more measured.
New York Insight Meditation Center :  Entering the Dhamma Fields: A Five Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto

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