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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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1981-03-24 Making peace with despair 1:32:23
Cittaviveka
1983-01-27 Precepts, meditation, chanting 34:05
Cittaviveka
1988-04-01 Force Of Metta 10:28:14
with Ajahn Sucitto, Anna Douglas, Christopher Titmuss, Joseph Goldstein, Marcia Rose, Sharon Salzberg, Sylvia Boorstein, Tara Brach
1988-05-06 Welcome 60:20
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
1988-05-07 Why meditate? 1:13:12
The phrase “the way it is” offers a snapshot of the changing experience of the mind as it considers basic questions of existence. Meditation offers a way to be with body feelings and reveals the steady and tranquil energy there. Meditation also reveals the compelling and default practice of the mind that is always identifying a “self” which creates anxiety, nervousness, trying too hard and judgements. Seeing this default mind process we see the Buddha’s concept of “suffering” and this leads in turn to comfort and confidence with understanding the statement “the way it is”. We can recall the Buddha said that nibanna is in fact realizable here and now, in this life. exact date uncertain
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
Attached Files:
  • Why meditate? by Ajahn Sucitto (PDF)
1988-05-08 Morning Instructions and Talk 1:38:52
and 1988-05-09
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1988-05-09 The Path of Direct Experience 59:24
Thought is an abstraction – we step back from experience and form an idea, opinion, judgment. This Path steers away from thought, and inclines towards direct, felt experienced. Enter experience and work from within the doubt, confusion, aggression with a clear, pure Buddha mind, not the thinking mind. With this unification of mind there is the end of suffering.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
1988-05-09 Awakening to the Way Things Are 63:27
We were all born with the capacity to be aware – this is the reflective mind. It has to be cultivated or it becomes distorted. Mindfulness of body and breathing helps slow the mind down so it can reflect, recognize that experience is conditioned, arising dependent upon circumstance. When mind awakens to the way things actually are, one touches the deathless.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
1988-05-10 Nature of Unsatisfactoriness 45:30
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1988-05-10 Peril of View 1:10:00
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1988-05-11 The Contemplative View 48:28
Trust in the contemplative view and life simplifies by itself. Contemplation channels our ways of recognizing and knowing things so the awakening mind begins to cultivate wisdom. Then we can recognize why we experience suffering and put an end to it.
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1988-05-12 Perspectives on the Mind 43:39
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1988-05-12 Something About Freedom 1:13:32
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1988-05-13 Tomorrow is Saturday? 65:13
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1988-05-13 Seeing the Way It Is! 53:57
meditation instructions
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1988-05-14 Meditation Instructions 44:46
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1988-05-14 Right View 57:00
Structures of Dhamma practice aren’t commandments or statements of reality but to be used as focal points for us to observe. We notice where we hold on, where self-view arises, when we expect things to be fulfilling. All this causes suffering as long as we hold onto it, and liberation when we understand it as it is. Whatever we encounter then is not a heavy burden but an opportunity to cultivate that which will be for my welfare and the welfare of others.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
1988-05-14 Guided Meditation - Mettā 25:28
Mettā, which is goodwill or benevolence, is something to practice frequently. It helps our perceptions become more kindly and giving, less critical and holding. Kindness begins by coming into the present moment – breathing, spreading, opening through the whole body. From this state practice referring to what arises with patience, compassion and gratitude.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Monastic Retreat
1990-04-02 A Billion Calpas (Aeons) Of Bliss Are Not Enough 62:52
learning how our perceptions prevent us from experiencing life just as it is
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1990-04-03 Refuge From Worry 60:03
fulfilling our human potential by keeping the practice light and flowing
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1990-04-03 Cultivating Freedom Through Difficulties 61:00
cultivating the ground of our mind so that the seed of the Dharma may sprout
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1990-04-07 Freedom 60:49
what does it mean to be free?
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1990-04-07 Metta - The Radiant Mind 50:25
Cultivating lovingkindness and non-aversion.
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In collection: Force Of Metta
1990-04-07 Sacred 1:13:24
grounding our practice in the precepts
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1990-04-07 Kindness And Mindfulness Are Not Separate 54:22
attending to mindfulness so that we may learn to be kind...even to our own unkindness
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1990-04-07 Liberation From The Determinants Of Self View 62:22
letting go of the watcher
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1991-01-01 Pilgrimage Talk in Bodhgaya 40:20
This Is a talk given to a retreat given by Christopher Titmus in January 1991 in Bodhgaya. It is referred to in Ajahn's podcast "Where Are you Going?" (https://whereareyougoing.podbean.com/)
Wat Thai Bodhgaya
1991-01-15 What Lies beyond Our Control 40:20
[This teaching was given while on pilgrimage in India during a retreat in Bodh Gaya. Link for more on this pilgrimage: https://whereareyougoing.podbean.com ] Sometimes we choose a ‘no control’ situation like retreat or pilgrimage for training. Devotion and acts of honoring open receptivity and change our way of seeing. The demanding grasping mind stops, and we begin to experience a proper relationship to experience, one of no conflict. We learn to humbly accept the unsatisfactory quality of life. This is the heart of surrender, to live in accordance with truth, and to trust the truth of our life as it is.
Cittaviveka
1992-12-25 Merit of Meditation 65:46
An archived talk recently edited for DharmaSeed. Day of talk is approximate.
Cittaviveka
1994-03-12 Lifting The Heart From Habit 62:54
trusting the buoyancy of the mind
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1994-03-15 Liberation From the Determinates of Self View 63:06
1994-03-16 Freedom & Resurrection 60:14
1994-03-18 Metta: The Radiant Mind 49:50
1994-03-18 Sacred 1:11:51
1995-03-18 Three Kinds Of Dukkha: The Value Of Zero 55:40
understanding the manifestations of Dukkha: change-ability, conditionability, physical and emotional pain
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1995-03-19 Brahma Viharas-Morning Instruction 55:07
Bringing kindness and clarity to the emotional side of life.
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1995-03-21 Wise Use Of Mindfulness 51:06
reflecting on the qualities of wise attention
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1995-03-23 Suffering And The Cessation Of Suffering 62:16
understanding the wisdom of dukkha
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1995-03-25 Wise Use Of Conventions 1:20:10
exploring "structures" in the world which help support our practice
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1995-07-11 Views And Commitment 61:07
Cittaviveka
1995-08-26 Kammatthana 63:34
Cittaviveka
1995-08-27 Self View And Devotion 56:29
Cittaviveka
1995-08-30 Filling The Resevoir Of Practice 56:47
Cittaviveka
1995-09-01 Desire 60:20
Cittaviveka
1995-09-05 Getting In Touch 45:42
Cittaviveka
1995-09-08 Five Indriyas 66:10
Cittaviveka
1995-09-14 Guided Meditation - Brahma Vihara And Kayanussati 40:16
Cittaviveka
1995-09-16 The Ending Of Things - Arising Of Gladness 1:35:17
Cittaviveka
1995-09-19 Beyond Failure And Success 1:17:54
Cittaviveka
1995-09-23 From Cessation To Relinquishment 61:26
Cittaviveka
1995-09-24 Keep Going In The Field Of Blessings 28:51
Cittaviveka
1995-09-27 Brahma Viharas Part 1 42:01
Cittaviveka
1995-09-27 Brahma Viharas Part 2 42:07
Cittaviveka
1995-10-08 Fellow Worms 1:10:10
Cittaviveka
1995-12-06 Structure Of Enjoyment 61:17
Cittaviveka
1995-12-31 New Years Eve 59:39
Cittaviveka
1996-08-21 Nimittas and attachment 55:58
Cittaviveka
1996-09-14 The essence of sila 41:12
Cittaviveka
1997-01-04 Faith 56:57
Cittaviveka
1997-01-07 Understanding Dukkha 69:04
Cittaviveka
1997-01-11 Sati 57:50
Cittaviveka
1997-01-16 Hindrances 55:44
Cittaviveka
1997-01-18 Anapanasati 64:35
Cittaviveka
1997-01-22 The Selfless Puppet Show 66:18
Cittaviveka
1997-01-29 Anapanasati - 4Th Tetrad 67:51
Cittaviveka
1997-02-01 Punna, Citta - Vimutti 26:12
Cittaviveka
1997-02-06 Wholesomes Roots 1:15:45
Cittaviveka
1997-02-08 Ignore The Base And Attend To The Roots 1:10:18
Cittaviveka
1997-02-14 Wisdom Faculties - Part 1 54:26
Cittaviveka
1997-02-15 Wisdom Faculties - Part 2 64:43
Cittaviveka
1997-02-21 Magha Puja- What Do Arahants Do 1:14:31
Cittaviveka
1998-02-04 The Bojjhangas 1:16:40
Cittaviveka
1998-02-19 Essence of mind 66:58
Cittaviveka
1998-02-28 Association with the lovely 64:23
Cittaviveka
1998-03-03 Here, there and everywhere 1:11:59
Cittaviveka
1998-03-07 Birth, death and deathlessness 1:17:19
Cittaviveka
1998-03-12 Emptiness and existence 62:35
Cittaviveka
1998-03-20 Empathy and emptiness 64:50
Cittaviveka
1998-03-27 Interdependance and Vinaya 59:20
Cittaviveka
1998-06-23 Well being 53:17
Cittaviveka
1998-07-04 Refuge 64:44
Cittaviveka
1998-08-15 Receptive and active principles 67:46
Cittaviveka
1998-08-20 The path of good kamma 60:23
Cittaviveka
1998-08-21 Good heart in the eightfold path 39:35
Cittaviveka
1998-09-05 Cultivation, the way out 66:18
Cittaviveka
1998-10-17 Anapanasati I First Tetrad 49:27
Cittaviveka Anapanasati Series
1998-10-18 Anapanasati II First Tetrad 63:23
Cittaviveka Anapanasati Series
1998-10-19 Anapanasati III First Tetrad 42:19
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1998-10-20 Anapanasati IV First Tetrad 40:01
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1998-10-21 Anapanasati V 38:01
Cittaviveka Anapanasati Series
1998-10-22 Anapanasati VI Second Tetrad 55:53
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1998-10-23 Anapanasati VII Third Tetrad 58:27
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1998-10-24 Anapanasati VIII Fourth Tetrad 60:55
Cittaviveka Anapanasati Series
1998-11-07 Otherness 54:22
Cittaviveka
1998-11-08 The wheel of Dhamma 58:53
Cittaviveka
1998-11-10 Participation 63:54
Cittaviveka
1998-11-20 One pointedness 1:11:55
Cittaviveka
1998-11-27 Signs 1:12:11
Cittaviveka
1998-11-28 Anatta 56:09
Cittaviveka
1999-03-05 Faith, Relinquishment, Commitment 64:00
these three factors sustain the unity of retreat.; they take us out of ourselves
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