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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2016-11-10 (30 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2016-11-11
Acknowledgement of Fields
56:27
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Experience arises as ‘fields’ – for example the visual field. Skilful fields – ‘places’ to dwell in - are necessary and can be generated - for example the moral field, the devotional / sacred field and the embodied field.
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2016-11-12
Chanting: the movement into harmony
10:43
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Chanting is trans-rational - it’s not just what it means but what it does. By incorporating the body’s emotionally sensitive energies, and by attuning to others, it brings us to harmony.
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2016-11-12
Fields and forms – the play of consciousness
43:56
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Ajahn Sucitto
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From awareness in the field of sense data, consciousness selects an object. That process generates a subject. In the split between subject and object, demons arise. The true subject has no object, and cannot be tracked. This is presence, awareness.
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2016-11-13
Puja as practice.
11:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The use of chanting, ritual and devotional practice to attune the citta to the field of shared aspiration
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2016-11-13
A firm foothold
45:23
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Dhamma is a wheel of factors that incline towards awakening. ‘World’ is a wheeling of factors that go nowhere useful. Place a firm footing on the Dhamma through the five indriya.
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2016-11-14
Keeping it fresh
26:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Beginning a day, beginning anything, requires openness, letting go of the known. Reorient the mind through deep attention.
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2016-11-14
Breaking through the web
63:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Existence is an ongoing arising of dynamic and interdependent factors. We both arouse and support skilful ones and break through the obsessive and deluded ones.
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