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Dharma Talks
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2019-12-23
Duties towards Dhamma in Lay Life
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Ajahn Sucitto
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As we return to the duties of lay life, we are encouraged to incorporate duties towards the Dhamma. Structure in reference points that remind you to be mindful and skillful – daily meditation, association with kalyāṇamitta, and cultivation of pāramī are recommended. Be vigilant, stay awake, don’t go into automatic. If you don’t shape your own life, the world will shape it for you.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-21
Q&A 3
69:00
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Body scanning; stuck areas; mental proliferation; ‘commander’ and ‘do-er’ aspects of mind; appropriate objects of meditation; thoughts that arise during ānāpānasati; dealing with hinderances; restlessness
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Guided Meditation – Body Sweeping
49:55
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Guided meditations can help in terms of timing, to demonstrate just how slow a process meditation is. Generally, the object of meditation is simple, it’s the handling of it that’s the skill. Body sweeping develops receptivity of the body. One cultivates tonal qualities of receptivity and care.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-19
Progressive Dispassion
24:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we repeatedly return to qualities that calm the citta. When we relate to phenomena in a reassuring, steadying way, citta experiences dispassion. There’s a progressive withdrawal from phenomena because citta begins to sense itself as stable, satisfying and valuable. It has no more purpose in going out. This is the maturation process.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-18
Pick Up the Thread
30:41
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Ajahn Sucitto
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In meditation we practice to find the balance of both focused and open awareness. We place the mind on a concept, and linger there letting the meaning run through the heart. Mind finds it difficult, but body does it naturally. The body can teach us the right kind of attention that lifts the mind and makes it happy.
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Uttama Bodhi Vihara
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Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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2019-12-17
Ways to Awaken: Five Ways to Become An Arahant
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Shaila Catherine
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In this talk, Shaila Catherine explores five ways that one may become fully awakened—an arahant. The teaching is based on a discourse found in the Anguttara Nikaya (AN 5:26). These ways include awakening 1) by listening to someone teach the dhamma, 2) while teaching the dhamma, 3) by reciting the teachings in detail as one has learned them, 4) while pondering, examining and investigating the dhamma, and 5) through penetrative wisdom with an object of concentration. Study, reflection, and deep meditation create conducive conditions for awakening. Study informs and inspires our meditation practice; meditation produces depth and clarity in understanding. We can balance our engagement with both study and meditation to optimize the cultivation of this liberating path.
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Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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December 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2019-12-11
Q&A
58:59
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Ajahn Sucitto
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1) What is citta? 2) Regrets, how to forgive oneself 3) How to practice appamano states in everyday life (mudita, equanimity) 4) How to work with obstructive mind-states (judgmental, not good enough, lonely, regretful, hopelessness) 5) How to practice reclining meditation 6) Headaches in certain mind-states
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Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand
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6-Day Residential Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
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