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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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2021-12-11 Guided Meditation – Embodied Sense of Support 15:18
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Practice stepping back from the complexities and coming into the embodied sense of being supported; widen the focus to include ground and space. The problematic stuff is still problematic, but there’s a possibility to step back and inquire, "How’s that?" The heart that is balanced and free from pressure naturally experiences compassion, goodwill, equanimity.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-11 Q&A 51:20
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00:12 Being at ease with suffering; 08:55 Time and space; 16:09 How to sit with constant pain; 20:23 Energy is blocked in the throat; 24:42 How to fully realize and penetrate suffering; 29:50 Hyper-tension; 36:44 Not taking things personally; 42:08 How to truly forgive; 44:31 Clearing ill-will; 46:10 Liberation through the deathless.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-12 Finding Your Own Pleasure 46:43
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Practice is actually quite simple. It involves translating the complexities of your personal circumstances into simple emotional patterns. Breathing picks up the dominant emotional signal and transfers it through the system. We want to manage that signaling system, to stop afflicting ourselves with harmful signals and heal ourselves with affirmative signals, ones that make the body feel whole and settled. At 29:45 a simple exercise to generate healing signals.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-12 Advice on Walking 9:40
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Explore how the body moves in space when there are no boundaries, no time pressures, no destination. Feel the swing of the pelvis and shoulders, moving through your environment with fluidity. Focused on your intimate environment, you’re not grabbed by the sense world. You can deal with the external environment more wholesomely and comfortably.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
In collection: A Moving Balance
2021-12-12 Signs and Signals 56:14
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The signs and signals in the sense world very often take us out of our core presence. So we cultivate carefully honed, carefully placed signs that calm and steady us, returning us to our core presence. From this place of stability and comfort we’re able to disengage from the unskillful and meet the difficult so it can be cleared.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-12 Guided Meditation – Being Loved by Your Own Breathing 32:15
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Holding on doesn’t provide you with the deep security of being held. That deeper security comes from trusting that something can carry you and you don’t have to do it. That’s what breathing does. Mindfulness of breathing sustains the right mode of attention – steady, not seeking anything, listening intently with no particular result. Relax into that and get the sense of freedom and love.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-12 Q&A 46:27
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00:00 Working with people who have suffered trauma; 05:32 Helping someone into feeling the body or breath; 06:54 Relationships with others who are not spiritual; 09:06 Relationship between energy, intension and kamma; 17:57 The felt sense of being held; 20:36 Feelings of negativity when verbally attacked by family members; 23:24 Feeling sleepy; 25:29 Disorientation when trauma recedes; 28:55 The thinking mind; 32:02 When something is stuck; 34:27 Samādhi and concentration; 42:00 Is chanting helpful to the practice.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-12 Experience of Being Trapped 3:16
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This Covid experience can give the felt sense of being trapped, corralled in. There’s a background sense of fear and uncertainty. That’s why it’s so important to generate lovingkindness, groundedness, steadiness – soothing the community atmosphere, internally and externally.
London Insight Meditation :  Feel It, Breathe It, Clear It - A Guide to Emotional Management
2021-12-19 Enjoying Presence 40:53
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We become entangled in the creations and reactions that arise based on ignorance. Mindfulness immersed in the body is where we can experience release from the powerful reflexes and currents. Translate the complexities of thoughts into the simplicity of emotional drives, and feel them in the body. Tune into what’s given – awareness, presence, stability – this is comfortable, this is pleasure, this is our basic ground.
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2021-12-22 Guided Meditation - All Things Converge upon Feeling 49:28
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Establish mindfulness with the experience of a feeling body, the most fundamental source of feeling. Use a wide form of attention that covers the whole body. As phenomena are changing the mind is still with receptivity and deep listening. The nature of sati doesn’t react to feeling. The feeling can be felt, without blaming, criticizing or getting involved. When feeling isn’t given any more food, it becomes more equanimous.
Cittaviveka :  At Home with the Homeless: Ajahn Sucitto Locked Down
2021-12-31 The Network of Liberation 46:13
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Notice the web of conditions we all share, connections we take for granted – we are not separate from that, we are that weave. The decent human response is to cultivate virtue and goodwill, develop wisdom; such skillful causes and conditions purify the heart. This is the kamma that leads to the end of kamma. Connection to Dhamma via spiritual friendship leads out of suffering. It’s important to recognize such connectivity as a skillful quality, not a bondage.
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2022-01-06 Gratification, Danger, Escape, Right View Regarding the Mind 37:39
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We all participate in this generated ‘me’ experience, which is of being ‘in here’ afflicted by the world ‘out there’. But we can come to understand this scenario as conditions with causes and effects. We can cultivate the basis for contentment, for love, tolerance, acceptance, gladness. There is a Path.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-07 Getting Out of the Concrete Jungle 44:15
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With mindfulness of breathing, subtle beneficial signs are picked up and suffused into the body. We can relinquish the signs we’ve picked up from the concrete jungle, the fear, the dread, the lack of heartfulness; we can purify the internal environment. Refer to what’s beautiful, uplifting, noble and generous. With mindfulness of breathing you’re taking in these messages.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-08 Stream of Liberation 51:47
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There is the nutriment for ignorance and the nutriment for true knowledge and liberation. Both are dependently arising on other factors. What arises, whether skillful or unskillful, is based on how one places attention, moderates attitudes, and relinquishes self-view. This is a transpersonal process – keep filtering experience in these transpersonal terms.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-09 Careful Attention: Food for Awakening 41:52
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With careful attention we pick up those qualities within experience that are most supportive for liberation. It means we notice how things affect us and the results that follow. Mindfulness of body gives you something to rest in as you breathe through the rocky areas of heart and mind. Citta comes out of its restricted state and there’s a widening, stepping back, letting go.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-10 Cracking the Shell Is Pleasant 39:29
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The process of cultivation is a pleasant one of cleaning away the dross and delusions that cause us suffering and stress. Drop by drop the bucket fills up with skillful actions and overflows into something more deep, steady, reliable. Be a stable presence rather than search for it, ‘out there’ – gradually the chaos will begin to still. There’s a process there, and the result is purification.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-11 Wisdom - The Intelligence that Leads to Stillness 40:07
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The cultivation of wisdom is not just a matter of intellectually knowing something, it’s a practice of handling, and staying in touch with what’s felt. Steadying citta so it can come out of its fixed gripped state, there’s a turning towards dispassion and right response. Stay in touch with the process, do the process and see where it goes – that’s how you learn.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-12 Liberation Is a Careful, Everyday, Process 37:02
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Of all the things to be sensitive about, the most urgent and important, is to know how you’re activated and to calm the citta saṇkhāra. We get morphed by what we plug into, so unplug and let go of the unskillful, and plug into what’s necessary for calming and steadying. It takes time for citta to get it. Keep making an effort with friendliness, aligning everything in our lives to support this present awareness.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Winter Retreat Opening Group Practice
2022-01-15 Commitment to Integrity 38:34
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Heart-mind will be shaped by whatever we put our attention into, so aim to shape it with supportive influences. A commitment to integrity will shape the mind to be steady, strong, confident, reliable. Shape it around refuges and precepts, for your own welfare and the welfare of others.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-15 Psychology and Neurology 37:53
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The theme of mindfulness of breathing is to regulate so our bodily system comes into a moderated state. When heart-mind tunes into that it naturally gives rise to beneficial psychologies – simplicity, generosity, sympathy, warmth. When we begin to take in the qualities of our good actions, it helps to repair our nervous system so it’s no longer so tense, irritable, jumpy or feeling so guilty – things shift. That’s the process. Therefore, we should cultivate this way.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-15 Q&A 36:36
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00:40 Guidance on the reclining position; 08:48 Managing energy, not overexerting but staying diligent; 15:06 Samādhi process as a settling “downwards” of the citta; 16:17 How can we meditate on space in the body; 22:08 How to distinguish cultivation from craving to become; 24:27 What weakens resolve; 26:29 Feelings of disappointment and resentment; 31:25 Feeling like the “I” was inclining to drop but felt stuck in recent meditation.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-16 Return to a True Shape 52:31
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The natural shape of the heart when it’s not dragged out by the sense world has the quality of stable well-being to it. This is the highest happiness. Do what you can do from good intention, restraint and kindness. Keep returning to that because that’s your home base where your heart is naturally able to express itself, manifest its values and qualities into your life.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-16 Q&A 54:26
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00:53 Please explain the idea of the pāramī; 04:59 Letting go of thinking/expectation; 07:44 Using the sound of silence in practice; 15:58 How Qigong connects to practice; 24:47 Tension in tongue and jaw; 25:03 Remaining “upright and joyful”; 29:23 Family does not agree with my practice; 34:13 Dealing with pain; 38:10 Experience of a deep horrific fear; 43:45 Out of body experiences while meditating; 45:19 Relationship between release of somatic knots and releasing the citta; 48:55 Regrets and resentment; 50:13 Can you speak about the āsava? 53:37 Difference between peace, serenity and tranquility? Pīti and sukha?
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2022-01-17 Aspiration Drives the Vehicle 50:52
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By and large we’re looking for the ending suffering, for the possibility of bringing forth what’s good. This is the realm of citta, it wishes to do good. This body is just a tool, to do good deeds with, to work with this person, rather than being it. It’s a vehicle to bring forth the good, the true, the beautiful. Don’t be deceived by appearances, this is a transformation. Bring forth your aspiration vehicle.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-17 Q&A 57:31
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00:30 Questions about meditation; 16:01 What is awareness of awareness? Difference in mano, manas, citta and viññāṇa; 26:00 How to deal with impatience and restlessness; 30:27 How to know if I’m cultivating well; 31:37 Obsessive compulsive disorder; 36:47 Meditation on the 32 parts of the body; 39:54 When thoughts stop and fade away; 41:10 How to deal with death and loss; 43:20 Standing meditation; 45:02 Easier to recognize some feelings but not others; 48:42 Conditionality, saṇkhāra and the aggregates.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-18 Presence and Sharing It 57:15
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Wherever you are, you’re always present. We tend to focus on what we’re present with, the sights and sounds, but what’s the capacity to be present with them? Remove the fear, agitation, craving, imagined hostility of other people – these block presence. Presence is a certain stability, freedom from regret and agitation, goodwill towards myself and others. This is the most peaceful abiding.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-18 Q&A 41:11
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00:06 Mind in body or body in mind; 01:31 Citta voice and thinking mind voice – how to bring them together; 03:12 Mind storm leads to confusion, compulsive thoughts; 05:51 Sleeplessness, especially accompanied with anxiety; 08:02 how to ensure qualities like love are not coming from self-centeredness or craving; 11:09 Fear around upcoming surgery; 13:34 Losing the balance of mind when overcome with pain; 20:22 Others means of practice in addition to meditation; 21:59 Practicing meditation with the aim of attaining jhānas; 27:04 Getting a sense of pīti during meditation; 34:55 If there's no self who inherits the karmic residues from past lives; 36:51 discernment vs judgment.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-18 Attend to the Heart Tones 18:39
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When your heart becomes buried under thought, or you can’t manage what’s happening in the heart, then you need your body to bring you back. Body provides the steadying effect that allows the heart to come out. The other approach is through kindness, the ability to maintain presence, pausing and lingering whilst waiting for the heart’s response. This is how we begin to put aside the reactions and compulsiveness, and find our way out of the tangled web of confusion and distraction.
Bandar Utama Buddhist Society :  Well-being Is the Shape of the Heart
2022-01-22 Sound 1 Breath and Vowels 36:24
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Outline of an approach to chanting as a practice; vowels
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance
2022-01-23 Sound 2 Consonants 42:17
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Mouth closure sounds that terminate a vowel
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance
2022-01-24 Sound 3 Review and Practice 33:43
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Noticing and reclaiming Pali phoneme differences from English and Thai; the effect of English and Thai language particularities; rhythm and consonant length
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2022-01-25 Sound 4 Puja 38:49
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Honouring and offering creates the atmosphere; recalling the purpose of the event/ the moment; using the significance of the location and time; cultivating aspiration
Cittaviveka :  Ajahn Sucitto Chanting Collection - Pali Sounds and Chanting Guidance
2022-02-01 The Tiger’s Challenge: Impeccability and Aspiration 48:52
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The one thing we can train in and recollect is that we can aspire. No other creature aspires. We are born with desire, and if we don’t use it for aspiration it leaks out into sensuality and thinking. Then the mind loses its alertness. One of the most fundamental things we aspire to is a different alignment. Finding a place to stand which is true, empowering, dignified, blameless – a refuge. This is how you stand apart from the worldly currents, and live in the quality of good intent.
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2022-03-24 Aspiration – The Rising of the Heart 32:14
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Aspiration connects to the very fundamental wish of the heart, and acts as the basis for energy. What does the heart really rise up for? Rather than just getting by in life, where is the sense of purpose and meaning that brings forth the best in us? All of our actions and words should proceed from that place of faith. Body helps ground and moderate that energy.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-25 Everyone Likes Letting Go 39:33
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Investigate feeling as an energy rather than as content. Refer to that which is affected, the heart itself. It’s up to us to apply energy, investigate, turn the mind around, turn the heart, get it to see clearly. Use body to stabilize and simplify content, and the concoction of thought dissipates. This is release; the heart becomes unrestricted.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-26 Notice What You Don't See - The Causes of Things 38:08
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Practice with directly experienced meanings, dhammas, qualities that touch the heart. Looking into causes and conditions, we begin to sense, this is causing certain phenomena to cease or arise. See where it goes; dhammas lead on by themselves. If you stay in touch with them they lead on to further clearance, or to further stress and suffering.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-27 The Dog Knows Its True Master 46:56
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A lot of our practice is to recognize the ‘I am’ cannot do it – it has to be understood carefully as energies, habits, stories. Find another vehicle, the 5 indriya, the spiritual allies. The beauty of the practice is it works beyond the ‘I am’. The ‘I ‘can’t do it, but the indriya can. Give them a chance to keep working, and nature of citta is it does recognize these transpersonal qualities, like when a dog knows where its true master is.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-28 A Good Boat Needs Water 50:58
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The thinking mind conceives, weaves into being other people and self; it’s very convincing. But there is a choice – you can refer to things, people, situations – or you can refer to where faith arises. Turn to that faith-vehicle and let the energies and the tonality of faith, generosity and virtue shape mind (or ‘heart’ citta). Then you find a proper basis for mindfulness.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-29 Stop the Mind, Bring Forth the Heart 50:51
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The mind is affected by the world of sense consciousness – creates boundaries and generates a self. But what’s to be cultivated is the unconditioned where those limitations and differentiations don’t exist. Relax the boundaries with the practice of goodwill. Incline towards harmony, respect, integrity, and paying careful attention, for your welfare and the welfare of others. This is an end to our proliferations.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-03-30 Getting off the Chessboard of Life 43:45
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Our practice comes down to building up Path factors. Building up skills of integrity, loving-kindness, clarity of mind, and calm in order to be able to fruitfully meet dukkha. Clearing the ground, so citta is properly fed and encouraged to meet where the sense of self, the identification experience, comes to light – then citta can speak from its depth.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Cittaviveka Winter Retreat Closing Group Practice
2022-04-08 GM - Finding the middle way 25:49
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2022-04-08 Finding the middle way 23:58
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2022-04-09 Mindfulness of the Interactive Domain 39:05
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Moving into the inter-reactive, inter-responsive world we can become distracted, scattered. Seeing the seeds or tendencies to act in worldly ways contributing to disparities and lack of fellowship, we hold our attention suitably, living with others calmly and peacefully.
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2022-04-16 The Shoerack of Life 48:14
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Life is interactive and irregular with moments regarded as too much or too little. We use community as a field of practice to span these, developing awareness, knowing how to manage the volitional formations, self making impulses that cause suffering.
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2022-04-23 Introduction and theme 12:35
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In understanding and relaxing the boundaries of self we step back and listen internally with goodwill, discovering what has to be set aside or investigated. Thus we begin to release the self from the habitual trap of cause and effect.
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-23 Guided Meditation 43:02
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Guided sitting and standing
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-23 What is our identity? 50:56
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Investigation reveals this to be a mix of causes and conditions (inherited karma) along with actions and attitudes established through compulsive reactions. Using the Buddha's core teaching of the dukkha/ suffering that comes with clinging, we learn to use the feelings in the body as a guide to allow us to move out of this programmed self.
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-23 What does identity have to do with practice? 56:18
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Identity is actually a process of making a self through clinging to what mind creates through contact with our environment and other people. This process comes down to the interplay of form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations – the aggregates (khandha) But am I really any part of this? Investigation allows us to unclog the heart and release the inherent suffering. Ajahn recommends walking as a way of experiencing flow and fluidity. No identity is needed!
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-24 Harmony practice 30:27
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A guided chanting / sound exercise to generate internal harmony and harmony with others.
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-24 A path to the deathless 54:41
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Who or what you think you are is not your fundamental home. Learning to contemplate the citta/ mind/ heart and the five aggregates (form, consciousness, perceptions, feelings and mental formations) reveals a way to dismantle the driven ego and liberate the citta from aging, sickness and death.
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-24 The sense of identity as a place to contemplate 39:14
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Contemplating the internal experience of “me” and the way “me” reacts with external phenomena reveals how our identity is constantly manufactured by our reactions. Widening and relaxing supports a heart that is modest, clear and open, without stress and without identity; a heart that can comfortably meet and deal with what arises.
London Insight Meditation :  Relaxing self-boundaries into Dhamma fields
2022-04-30 The True Norm Releases the World 50:26
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2022-04-30 The True Norm Releases the World 50:26
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Dhammas arising internally and externally merge eventually in a stable point – this is how it is now. We see the craving and becoming and release them in favour of the true assembly.
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2022-05-01 Anapanasati Sutta (P) 5:51
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2022-05-01 Divine Abidings(P) 4:57
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2022-05-01 Evening Chanting (E) and Divine Abidings (E) 9:37
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2022-05-01 Metta sutta (P) 4:14
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2022-05-01 Morning Chanting (E), Loving Kindness (E) and 5 Subjects (P&E) 12:27
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2022-05-01 Morning Chanting (P) and 5 Subjects (P&E) 8:16
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2022-05-01 Refuge Mantra (P) 1:31
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2022-05-01 Suffusion with the Divine Abidings (E) 3:55
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2022-05-01 Taking the 3 Refuges (P) 1:30
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2022-05-06 Guided Meditation 15:32
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2022-05-06 Sustaining the Middle Way Sampajañña 26:37
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Using the body's sensitivity we can notice what stabilizes and gladdens the citta, that moment the Buddha touches our heart. How can our practice continue this? Ajahn recommends cultivating sampajañña - fully and directly knowing what’s happening - and describes its four qualities.
Cittaviveka :  2022 Online Teaching
2022-05-20 Guided Meditation 19:19
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Gathering ourselves into a field of collective awareness, we tune into a sense of shared belonging and support with other human beings.
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2022-05-20 The skilful use of precepts 11:10
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Refuges and precepts provide a field of conscience and concern that wards off carelessness, imbalance, distractedness and negativity – and helps in moving towards a true norm that won’t let us down.
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2022-05-21 Standing Meditation 41:40
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Becoming aware of the spinal axis and the space around it. This can be used in any position.
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2022-05-21 Reflections 46:49
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Words like “central axis” and “periphery” help create a template for awareness of all the senses in a field rather than seizing on points or a particular sensory experience. This is citta / mind/ heart, an awareness of a psychosomatic field.
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2022-05-21 Q&A 35:19
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
(Questions are précised and read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity) 00:12 Q1 One-pointedness; 08:22 Q2 Can you comment on the widely taught practice of one pointed concentration; 16:31 Q3 I struggle with narratives filled with self-limiting beliefs I create in meditation and daily life. Can you help with this please?; 30:31 Q4 When do we choose open curiosity versus directed compassion or loving kindness? What is the relationship between them and their utility?
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2022-05-22 Discovering the Energy of Presence 44:45
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The retreat theme acknowledges we need allies in cultivating awareness, something outside our normal self structure but available, in spite of the personality. Aspiration/ faith are the first of these.
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2022-05-22 Walking Suggestions 6:17
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Our energy is normally inclined to the front of our bodies. Is there a wider approach?
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2022-05-22 Walking Suggestions 6:18
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Our energy is normally inclined to the front of our bodies. Is there a wider approach?
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-22 Q&A 36:14
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-23 Guided Standing Meditation 40:06
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With standing it's difficult to drift off. Feeling connection to and the strength of the ground and using the bones for support rather than muscle.
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2022-05-23 Sati - The Third Indriya 56:19
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Sati-mindfulness, or bearing in mind – is the third indriya. It is a powerful ally for liberation. With this we come out of old habits and find freshness, meaning, potency. You feel where your strength arises.
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2022-05-24 Guided Standing Meditation 50:40
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Standing form is a powerful way to bring one into the realities of embodiment which can be taken then to sitting or walking.
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2022-05-24 Currents in the Citta - Sati 54:00
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Considering the structures of the day we can release those that are not useful and direct them to discover citta and an inner balance, not just 'the next thing'.
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2022-05-24 Q&A 38:32
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Your explanation of sati as putting a ring around proliferation makes sense to me. How best to do the ring-fencing? 12:46 Q2 Does the Buddha say what the purpose of human life is? 17:39 Q3 What happens when you die? 22:37 Q4 Could you speak more about citta resting in itself. 27:24 Q5 Am I trying to do too much when holding a sense of ground and releasing boundaries for myself? 30:20 Q6 Boundaries in relationships when caring for elderly parents.
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2022-05-25 Sati-sampajañña - Clearing Hindrances 60:12
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Hindrances can be cleared through ‘mindful direct awareness’ – sati sampajañña. Such working through what blocks the potential of citta, demands humility, since it is not one’s personal self doing the work. Body is a key and potent resource.
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2022-05-25 Q&A 23:45
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 Please say more about sankara and their physiological / psychosomatic body links; 18:06 Q2 I have a question about tears borne from love and grieving. How does this fit with equanimity?
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2022-05-26 Guided Standing Meditation 42:28
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Self massage helps body awareness arise. With mental intention, alternately directing and releasing activation energy around the body, we increase connectivity and provide a broad basis for mindfulness.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-26 Orientation Towards Completion and Ease 60:02
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Developing facility with the indriya – faith, energy, mindfulness, collectedness and discernment – supports awareness of skilful states flowing and fulfilling themselves within a mindful embodiment.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-27 The Kindness of Wisdom 51:51
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Discernment is easily biased by the five aggregates, especially mental constructions such as uncertainty and ‘not quite right yet’. Contemplating citta we can understand suffering rather than adopt a notion of solving it.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-27 Q&A 28:17
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
Questions are précised and some are read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity. 00:00 Q1 How wide can the space of embracing you spoke of be for people (like prisoners for example) who may not have the present capacity for insight and who seem not ready to face trauma. Perhaps they will never be ready. O1:44 Q2 When and how in meditation and life, should we put boundaries around unhelpful things without a pushing away quality? 06:10 Q3 Could you say more about the relationship between the composed part and the part that’s in disaray as more important than either of the two. 8:52 Q4 Could we hear more about jealousy please and the associated difficult shame reactions. 16:09 Q5 Does any kind of volition disrupt bodily alignment or subtle bodily energies, or can the well instructed person conceive or even act without resultant misalignment?
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-28 Devotional Imaging - Inviting the Indriya (with 30 min meditation) 39:13
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Sacred images can brighten the mind and allow helpful energies to arise. We can summon the indriya through this means. With devotional practice, we dislodge the self from its center point, revealing the energy of spiritual desire (chanda).
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2022-05-28 Crossing the Floods 54:02
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Ajahn explores the Buddha's famous prescription: 'By not pushing forward and by not standing still, I managed to cross the floods'.
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2022-05-28 Q&A 33:41
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
(Questions are précised and read later into the file to protect participants’ anonymity) 00:11 Q1 I’ve felt a lot more alive and sensitive over the retreat, experiencing a lot of inwards and outwards connectivity. How does that affect the deepening of practice? And also are the experience of chi and piti related? What about after leaving the retreat, is the loss of sensitivity inevitable? 13:20 Q2 Can you say more about “the imaginal practices”? Please expand on how chanting can re-pattern emotional energy. 23:20 Q3 I’m having new meditative experiences that make me excited and even a bit fearful in seeing consciousness as impermanent. Can you advise please? 23:03 Q4 Is it automatic that samadhi will lead to discernment?
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-29 Guided Meditation - Attention to Posture 47:02
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A detailed description of the sitting posture allows the listener to gain fresh perspective on this form of meditation.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-29 Opening and Closing in Goodwill 52:29
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Opening and closing happens everywhere, even with breathing. Discharging creates space for enjoyment, spontaneity and flexibility. Eventually even energy must be relinquished, so we practice recollection of death using the brahma viharas to expand awareness, closure with no regret, the deathless.
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2022-05-29 Q&A 47:39
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with Ajahn Sucitto, Laura Bridgman
00:00 Q1 What clings? 11;13 Q2 Laura, can you speak more about moving back and forth between the path and the world. 16:51 Q3 What is meant when a person says someone is their teacher? 19:43 A poem by Rabindranath Tagore is read. 21:00 Q4 How to skilfully help others in our lives to get them to slow down and be more present? 27:14 Q5 How to let go of regrets and uproot the self? 36:08 Q6 Please distinguish taking ownership of karma and clinging to everything else.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-30 Guided Brahma Vihara Meditation 45:06
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Cultivating receptive and responsive heart energies, provides an ongoing exploration. The field of body provides the best venue to experience how these energies move and to understand their characteristics.
Gaia House :  The Indriya: Allies for Liberation
2022-05-30 Ajahn Closing Comments 20:00
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2022-06-20 Opening Talk and Instructions 36:09
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Retreats require a commitment to the process of surfacing subtle energies through mindfulness of the body. Ajahn reviews basic sitting posture and it's utility. (Les retraites nécessitent un engagement dans le processus de faire émerger les énergies subtiles grâce à la pleine conscience du corps. Ajahn passe en revue la posture assise de base et son utilité.)
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 The importance of language 1:11:03
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Ajahn shows how language creates a separate individual and offers a selection of new vocabulary and meaning coming from Buddhist teachings demonstrating how they can be used for investigation. (Ajahn montre comment le langage crée un individu séparé et propose une sélection de nouveaux vocabulaires et significations issus des enseignements bouddhistes démontrant comment ils peuvent être utilisés pour l'investigation. )
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 An approach to Meditation 25:01
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Tuning into the rhythms of the body and its breathing, we are aware of an impression in the heart. Sympathy or empathy is available to meet this. Relax. Let the body breathe undisturbed. (En accord avec les rythmes du corps et de sa respiration, nous sommes conscients d'une impression dans le cœur. La sympathie ou l'empathie est disponible pour répondre à cela. Relaxer. Laissez le corps respirer sans être dérangé.)
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 Walking Instructions 5:17
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Using a forest style of walking produces rhythmic comfortable walking like a lion rather than a chicken using 25-30 paces, sensing the general mood and enjoying the forest. (L'utilisation d'un style de marche en forêt produit une marche rythmique confortable comme un lion plutôt qu'un poulet en utilisant 25 à 30 pas, sentant l'ambiance générale et appréciant la forêt. )
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 Dealing with afflictive states 13:33
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Developing confidence in experiencing presence by using the body and citta together. Establishing ground presence is the fundamental beginning. (Développer la confiance dans l'expérience de la présence en utilisant ensemble le corps et le citta. Établir une présence au sol est le début fondamental. )
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 Guided Meditation 41:45
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Sit in a comfortable position so that breathing is made easy. Pay attention to the spaces when the exhalation ends and then when the inhalation ends. (Asseyez-vous dans une position confortable pour faciliter la respiration. Faites attention aux espaces lorsque l'expiration se termine, puis lorsque l'inspiration se termine.)
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-21 Q&A 20:23
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00:00 Q1 Where do energies come from? Do these drive evolution and the origin of life? 01:16 Q2 In walking meditation do we have to keep walking back and forth. 13:10 Q3 The days start alright but I accumulate the detritus of thinking through the day. What to do?
Terre d'Éveil Vipassana :  Energy as a means of liberation and well-being
2022-06-22 The Indriyas 66:06
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The five indriya are intimate allies that allow for a full and profound liberation - faith, persistence, mindfulness, concentration and discernment. They are conditioned but help us to cultivate the path towards the unconditioned. (Les cinq Indriya sont des alliés intimes qui permettent une libération pleine et profonde - foi, persévérance, pleine conscience, concentration et discernement. Ils sont conditionnés mais nous aident à cultiver le chemin vers l'inconditionné. )
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