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2021-06-01 Day 3 Q&A1 42:27
Ajahn Sucitto
How do I know if I have stream entry; how is fasting a benefit for practice; is body contemplation needed, how often; how to live with someone who lacks integrity; sāti and samādhi; experience of rapture during meditation; difficult to see dukkha in sense pleasures; observing eight precepts; keeping ‘not eating after noon’ based on which time zone; issue of entitlement; receiving guidance from a teacher; understanding causes and conditions for clarity.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-30 Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods 47:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.
Cittaviveka Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload

2021-05-02 Precepts and Resolution 26:23
Ajahn Sucitto
It’s very helpful to start the day with resolution: What can I say no to? What can I say yes to? Using the precepts as a frame, generate boundaries that will moderate energies and help you remain firm and grounded in the face of the floods.
London Insight Meditation Clearing the Floods

2021-04-11 Spanish Introduction - Refuges and Precepts, Standing ans Sitting Meditation 1:20:33
Bhante Bodhidhamma
This introduction was given to the group in Madrid ans is my usual introduction to the Mahasi Method.
Satipanya Retreat Centre

2021-03-09 Refraining from Sexual Misconduct 35:21
Shaila Catherine
This talk addresses the third ethical precept — refraining from sexual misconduct. Practicing with the precepts involves becoming mindful of our actions, recognizing the effects that our actions have on ourselves and others, learning to respond to our thoughts and feelings with wisdom, kindness, and restraint, and honoring our commitments. This precept provides opportunities to work with the movement of sexual desire and sensual lust. The views of sexuality that were prevalent in ancient India differ from contemporary norms, however, we can apply the underlying intention toward non-harming to contemplate and purify our own conduct. Shaila Catherine offers suggestions forgiving past unskillful actions, and strengthening our capacity for restraint.
Insight Meditation South Bay - Silicon Valley
In collection: Ethics, Action and the Five Precepts

2021-01-07 Unbind and Protect the Heart 42:33
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta’s receptive quality is both its vulnerability and strength. It has to be protected until it is strong enough to repel corrupting influences. Cultivate themes and meanings that unbind and strengthen the heart – Buddha, precepts, lovingkindness. Citta then has a place to withdraw to.
Cittaviveka Awakening Through Heart, Cittaviveka Winter Retreat 2021

2021-01-03 The Basis for Our Happiness 4:41
Ayya Medhanandi
Take refuge and commit to ethical precepts to deepen the purification of virtue within us. This is the basis for true happiness. We take refuge in enlightened wisdom, and in our ability to awaken. We have faith that we can realize that Truth by ourselves – in this life; and we trust in this timeless teaching, worthy of our effort, worthy of our attention, worthy of our faith, and worthy of our refuge.
Portland Friends of the Dhamma :  Ever Present Refuge

2020-12-27 Making the Refuges and Precepts Our Own - Meditation 34:57
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-12-27 Making the Refuges and Precepts Our Own - Talk 39:33
Mark Nunberg
Common Ground Meditation Center Weekly Dharma Series

2020-12-15 Sīla Practice 15:36
Ajahn Sucitto
Precepts are what most skillfully link citta to the world of sense contact. Without this ethical sense, citta runs out and gets into damaging circumstances. Precepts are the way you communicate the Dhamma through your actions into the world.
Cittaviveka Living, Dying and Liberation

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