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Retreat Dharma Talks
at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge
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2019-05-01 (31 days)
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2019-05-05
Intention Is Primary, Attention Is Secondary
51:41
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Attention forms a focus that is by definition, only a part of the whole field (especially the visual focus). So if a ‘watchful’ focus is making your practice tense and try, relax attention and cultivate intention – it covers it all. Intention has a certain motivation, it steers attention. The intention for freedom from stress and pain is what citta is looking for.
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2019-05-06
Storing Up the Good
55:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Notice what one’s citta stores and brings out at potent moments. We tend to store the negative, and that which is most familiar becomes myself. Why not store the good? Store up qualities of the brahmavihāras – goodwill, compassion, gladness & equanimity – as energy in the body. These energetic effects are a resource for your long-lasting welfare.
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2019-05-07
Standing Meditation: Restraining the Mind So the Body Can Speak
22:51
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Placing one’s attention carefully and repeatedly into embodiment, listen to what manifests as body. Make the shift from conceiving of body to felt knowledge, from regarding body to being body. Clearing away what’s not needed and inviting what’s important, let the body speak and hear itself.
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2019-05-07
Free Your Inner Dog
60:42
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Ajahn Sucitto
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We’re endowed with 3 kinds of intelligence: bodily, heart and verbal/thinking. The priority given to the thinking mind has numbed and shut down the body and heart. We train in direct knowing and primary sympathy to reawaken our deep intelligences.
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2019-05-09
Don’t Take Saṁsāra Personally
52:32
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Ajahn Sucitto
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The 5 indriya are spiritual faculties that become activated by feeling them in the body. Starting with faith –the pivotal faculty for coming out of the personal and sensory realm – and culminating in wisdom – the ability to discern skillful from unskillful, non-stress from stress – these 5 indriya work to release the mind from the pressure of identity.
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2019-05-10
Wisdom as Know-How
55:45
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Wisdom is the know-how faculty that discerns suffering and its end. It knows how the 3 intelligences (verbal, emotional, bodily) can work together to bring about the stilling of saṇkhāras. From it noble knowledge – realization – arises.
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2019-05-10
Training in Direct Knowing
22:29
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Ajahn Sucitto
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Sati – mindfulness – is only mentioned once in the Ānāpānasati sutta. ‘Directly feeling and knowing’ – pajānati – is the mode of practice. When we’ve attuned to this, we move to ‘training’. This phase of ānāpānasati begins with training in deeper sensitivity of the entire body.
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