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Dharma Talks
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2018-03-01
Guided meditation - Wholesome movements from the heart
16:46
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Ajahn Sucitto
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(10 m silence) Intentions move from the heart out into the world. Greed moves from the heart and reaches out; hatred moves from the heart and fights with things. We can us the brahmavihāras to cultivate wholesome movements from the heart that offer, nourish, protect and uplift. This will keep our energy clean and clear of disturbance.
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary
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Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
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2018-02-27
Q&A differentiation and discernment, tension, goodwill
46:30
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Questions are paraphrased: 1. Given the stressfulness of differentiation, is choosing what kind of meditation to practice stressful? 2. (11:30) Is the undifferentiated, the signlessness – the same as emptiness? 3. (24:02) Could you repeat what you were saying about relaxing tense muscles 4. (37:25) What does it mean to imbue the heart with loving kindness, “likewise the second, likewise the third and likewise the fourth”? What is the all encompassing world…?
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary
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Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
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2018-02-26
Instruction - conscious attention
20:15
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Attention is a constant thing, so if you don’t place it, it will find its own place, and it will generally place itself into suffering – what could be, should be, things we can’t quite manage. Place it somewhere useful, starting with the body. This is the foundation. [10:03 instructions on breathing and breath energy] With good clear breath energy, mind can establish mindfulness. Careful attention prepares the ground so there’s something suitable to be mindful of. [20:10 begin silent sitting meditation]
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary
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Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
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2018-02-25
Intro Sasanarakkha: Make your practice extensive, rather than intensive
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The essence of Buddhist practice is dealing with dukkha, unsatisfactoriness. While on retreat, observing precepts, making determinations and simplicity support our cultivation. So there’s always something you can be cultivating throughout the day. Meditation is just a support to Dhamma, Dhamma is the main thing. Cover it all. [40:36 Guided meditation] Settling practices, settling into space. Begins with feeling ground beneath, upright axis of spine, using wide visual field as a support.
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Sasanarakkha Buddhist Sanctuary
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Ajahn Sucitto Dhamma Retreat
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2018-02-06
Summary - stewarding attention through the widening field of the inner and outer worlds
53:50
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Buddha’s last words were: All sankhāras are impermanent. Keep applying yourselves with vigilance. This closing talk offers a review of kāya-, citta- and vaci-sankhāra, and a simple 3 step process to moderate their energies: 1) Pay attention, 2) Soften, widen, 3) Include it all. These steps can be used in meditation practice as well as in interactions in the world. We will lose presence, but we don’t have to wait until the next retreat to work it out. When you notice the programs running, feel the body, come down into the feet, exhale, where am I?
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Bandar Utama Buddhist Society
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Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
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2018-02-06
Checking and moderating thought - Guided meditation
61:38
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Settling into sitting meditation, tracing posture and energy up the back and down the front, spherical breathing from abdomen. [Bell at 38:17] [Instructions at 40:27] Invitation to loosen the intensity and congestion of thought - vaci-sankhāra, that which forms thought energy. Rather than not thinking, take time to formulate what to think about and bring heart qualities into that. This is a dhamma practice.
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Bandar Utama Buddhist Society
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Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
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2018-01-29
PM - Entering the bodily field
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Body can be experienced in multiple ways - physical, perceptual, somatic, and energetic. In this light, body is an experience rather than a thing. It plays out in meditation. It’s important to establish a more accurate body, clear of perceptual taints and distortions, biases and kammic impositions.
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Bandar Utama Buddhist Society
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Meditation Retreat with Luang Por Sucitto
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2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 8 - Talking with Trees)
1:55:38
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 7 - The Scripture of Body and Earth)
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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2018-01-14
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 6 - Amitabha Buddha)
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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2018-01-13
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 5 - Bodhicitta)
60:33
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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2018-01-12
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 4 - The Three Characteristics)
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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2018-01-11
Between Ikon and Eidos: Image & Hermeneutics in Meditation (Part 3)
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Rob Burbea
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PLEASE NOTE: 'The Mirrored Gates' is a set of talks (recorded by Rob from his home) attempting to clarify, elaborate on, and open up further the concepts, practices, and possibilities explained in previous talks on imaginal practice. Some working familiarity with those previous teachings will provide a helpful foundation for this new set; but a good understanding of and experiential facility with practices of emptiness, samatha, the emotional/energy body, metta, and mindfulness is necessary and presumed, without which these new teachings may be confusing and difficult to comprehend.
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Gaia House
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The Mirrored Gates
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