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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2019-05-20 Relationship – The Core of Our Practice 61:27
  Ajahn Sucitto
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The I/me sense arises within a field of kamma. This requires consistent relational practice as we respond to both phenomena (object-experience) and activations (subject-experience) in the field. Mindfulness and a good somatic sense are the keys to relate to experience without clinging or proliferation.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-18 Q&A 60:15
  Ajahn Sucitto
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1) The difference between tanhā and upādāna – which is more important to address? 2) Stream entry – what is it, what helps get to the next level, different definitions of the ‘noble disciple’. 3) Questions about citta – difference between citta and citta saṅkhāra, between mano and citta. 4) Jealously, loneliness, lack of love. 5) Ānāpānasati sutta – is it sequential, do we develop each step in every sitting? 6) Ajahn’s one word of advice. 7) Questions on identity and anattā.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-18 Commitment Is Necessary 57:03
  Ajahn Sucitto
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On the occasion of Vesak we are encouraged to make a commitment to training the heart. Then to steer the world of space and time we live in around that commitment. This is how actions (kamma) can build up helpful results and lead to the end of kamma.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-17 A Peaceful Abiding Is Possible 59:41
  Ajahn Sucitto
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We put energy into territory that can’t be under our sway, seeking security in systems and customs. What we do have sway over is this embodied mind. It can be trained to orient around wholesome qualities, and to realize that it’s most secure when clinging is released.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-17 Standing Meditation: Balance Is Conducive to Release 17:55
  Ajahn Sucitto
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The balance required in standing supports an uncontracted body. Lengthening, widening and deepening the somatic field, discordant energies, which may manifest as troubled moods, thoughts or impressions, can be ventilated and released.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-16 The Person Doesn’t Stop Clinging 59:04
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Clinging can’t be dealt with by the person. Meet it instead in the body where it manifests as stuck or numb places. Appropriate attention and the rhythm of breathing encourage constricted places to release, smoothing out the entire bodily field.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-16 Liberation through Non-Clinging 23:16
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Our reality is assembled from selected material that comes through the sense bases. As a result of craving and clinging, consciousness lands on particularly poignant material and continues the cycle of becoming and rebirth. Citta can be trained to handle material with dispassion rather than craving, awareness rather than clinging. The release of consciousness can be known.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-14 The Wisdom of Walking and of Sheepdogs 50:26
  Ajahn Sucitto
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There are 3 kinds of wisdom: discernment, skillful means and realization. Walking meditation and appropriate mindfulness are skillful means for cultivation. Together they bring around a stewarding akin to that of the sheepdog that moves within the flock, not outside it. This results in the deep harmony of samādhi.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-13 Guided Meditation: Sensitizing to the Direct Experience of the Body 55:21
  Ajahn Sucitto
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A guided meditation through the Ānāpānasati sutta. Establishing a comfortable, upright posture, incline awareness toward direct experience of the body. Sustain appropriate mindfulness and citta will sensitize to the qualities we call 'body’. This exercise resets the mind, which is then gladdened, steadied and cleared so that insight can develop.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-13 Samādhi – A Step Outside the Personal Footprint 57:01
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Samādhi is entered into dependent on the ripening of other factors. It gives us a place to stand outside of the personal perspective. The process of stepping out requires meeting the painful and unresolved in the body, then calming and soothing the heart.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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