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2019-05-11
Viriya – The Cultivation of Energy
54:49
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Energy has to be cultivated as a resource for practice. This process has three stages: gathering, specific application, and the strength that can release obstacles. The thinking mind uses energy but cannot generate it; energy is generated in the heart (citta) and in the body. Apply energy to empty out the negative and unskillful – the good and bright will arise on its own. |
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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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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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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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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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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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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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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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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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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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2019-05-05
Open the Heart to the Beautiful and Good
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Cultivate the quality of intention rather than objects of attention. Intention is broader, it encompasses everything. Correct intention neither holds on, nor resists. The quality of anukampā – primary sympathy – from which mettā arises. Puja acts as an emblem, it resonates meanings that open the heart. Beyond the physical body or personal state, rise up to the sign of the beautiful, worthy, admirable and the good. |
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May 2019 IMS Forest Refuge Retreat
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