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Retreat Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

June 2025 at IMS - Forest Refuge

(These are the original recordings. For the edited versions, please go to https://dharmaseed.org/retreats/6430/ )

2025-06-01 (30 days) Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge

  
2025-06-12 Resonance and the dissolving of difficult states 58:53
Ajahn Sucitto
Resonance is the sympathetic movement of energy; if one learns to resonate with how difficulties feel in the body, this sympathetic touch can facilitate release.
2025-06-13 Tracking Experience with Feeling 56:10
Ajahn Sucitto
Turn away from the measuring mind to track how experience is, and the arising and passing of stress. In this way, we engage with the ‘noble pleasure’ that leads to samadhi.
2025-06-15 Citta, Skin, Scars and Healing 56:28
Ajahn Sucitto
2025-06-18 Q&A 62:23
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice in the addictive world; lay stream enterers; anapanasati; attention and awareness; cultivate a good perspective on blockages.
2025-06-19 Realization Goes Against the Grain 53:34
Ajahn Sucitto
The process of fruition through satipatthana entails resources, obstacles, skills, release and integration. Nibbana can be momentary whenever the consciousness of subject and object deconstructs.
2025-06-20 Managing the Waves in the Lake 57:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta/heart is like a lake with waves rippling through it. The unawakened response is to create walls to resist the unpleasant, and fences to retain the pleasant - and 'me' to hold it all. Awakening responses to the waves are the skills of samadhi and brahmavihara. These make the lake vast and able to allow waves to arise and subside. They are door to the deathless - the unconstructed that the citta can enter through non-holding.
2025-06-20 Recollecting and Entering the Benevolent Field 55:46
Ajahn Sucitto
Bringing to mind and resonating with benevolent occasions in one's life to build up a solid resonant sign to sit with.
2025-06-22 The Practice of Non-Clinging 45:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Investigate the casual process of how dhammas arise and subside, and learn how to be with that.
2025-06-23 Ritual as Pragmatic Resource 65:56
Ajahn Sucitto
Resonating with images and meanings of the Triple Gem generates positive waves that place in the field of the True, the Good and the Beautiful - the best place for practice.
2025-06-24 Q&A 66:02
Ajahn Sucitto
1 How is there embodiment in the formless realms? 2 Is unwavering mindfulness possible? 3 Cultivating the brahmavihāra with samādhi 4 How are happiness and unhappiness equal - and what about Nibbāna? 5 What is the ‘spinal sense? 6 How do we practice forgiveness?
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