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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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2018-02-05 AM - The twelve aspects of the Four Noble Truths 63:08
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An explanation of the Four Noble Truths, what keeps us from realizing them, and how to skilfully work to understand and realize each one. This is described as the rich center of the Buddha’s teachings from which everything else emanates. We are encouraged to contemplate the teachings and understand them for ourselves.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-04 Evening Q&A 37:55
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1. How would you characterise freedom from sakkayaditthi (personality view)? 2. (18:08) I want to release self-hatred and “not good enough” patterns from an experience with a caregiver in my past that I have been carrying for 14 years. I have had metta towards the memories and the pattern has softened. I want to have metta for the caregiver. Any guidance gratefully received. 3 (32:13) Could you explain further about the body and mind connections?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-04 AM - The movement and the mover 49:12
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What is it that moves us? In the business model, getting things done is generally what drives us. It’s not about appreciation the quality of experience, it’s about arriving at an end result. That root perception gets embedded. The nature of kamma is that the root quality of the intention will appear in the action and also appear in the result. Still the mind, and separate out mental intention from body energy. Mental intention sets up the aim, then let the body follow through with action.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-04 Aimless walking (instruction with 30 minute silence) 3:43
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How is walking when there is nowhere particular to go and you want to know how this whole thing operates together? An encouraged skilful means is aimless walking. Frequent pauses to check energies and perceptions, come back into the feet and legs, how does it feel to be in this body now? [Instructions end 3:38]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-04 AM - Cultivate in accordance with ‘sappaya’: what is suitable and fitting - 20m meditation 33:01
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In meditation we can be confronted with inertia or pushing hindrances. Recommendation is to use physical enactment of energy - bowing, chanting -so you’re not gliding along but rising up into the occasion. Cultivate with a sense of sappāya, that which is appropriate, comfortable, manageable. Finding a frame of reference that can support moving against hindrances with patience and opening. This must be a fundamental aim in meditation. [Instructions end 12:43]
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-03 AM - the first 3 fetters 51:45
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2018-02-02 Evening Q&A 47:22
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1. Could you say more about the citta? 2. (6:47) I believe you suggested this (the conditions for the citta to understand) is where things have to be undone. Could you explain this please? 3. (31:10) Could you talk about “the patience that crosses over”? 4. (44:00) If you know someone who is very dishonest and a Buddhist, what is the most appropriate way to interact?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-02 AM - Container not content - a frame for emptying 40:36
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A lot of the Buddhist approach is in not doing - relaxing, softening, and relinquishing harmful and unskilful inclinations. Establish a firm foundation from which to let go. Don’t get fascinated by content, just establish the frame of reference. Everything is “yes” in terms of its existence, but “no” in terms of getting activated by it. Just acknowledging and letting go, recognizing there’s an alternative, and the energy of the activation shifts by itself and discharges.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-01 Evening Q&A 62:18
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1. Further comments on spherical experience of the breath and the experience of the body; 2. (19:43) What is the role of metta bhavana in practice?; 3. (47:32) If the body energy and breath have settled should one proactively introduce an object or wait for an object to present itself?; 4. (48:44) Is it important to be grounded all the time? What about the arupa jhāna non-grounded states?; 5. (51:38) Could you say more about the citta?; 6. (51:53) Can you speak about stream entry and how it arises?
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
2018-02-01 Knowing the aggregates needs a comfortable heart 57:05
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“What is greater, the water in the ocean or the tears shed in this faring on?” We cling to the aggregates, tearfully in search of something stable, permanent, comfortable. But it hasn’t happened. However, subjectivity - that which seeks comfort - is itself a source of comfort and stability. It’s called the citta and depends on itself - doesn’t depend on the aggregates. What needs to be undone is not the aggregate but the clinging to it. So we find a way to maintain presence with these aggregates in all their moving and changing. We use embodiment to bring a heft to awareness, to bring a sense of presence.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto

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