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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2018-11-29 33 Resetting Your World 55:48
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Referring to the Madhupiṇḍika Sutta, The Honeyball, (MN18), Ajahn Sucitto describes a two-fold training to get a handle on and curtail mental proliferation. Citta can be trained through deliberate attention to starve afflictive intentions, and to instead establish pāramī tendencies towards renunciation, clarity and patience.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-28 32 Ajahn’s Advice - Play More 51:12
  Ajahn Sucitto
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The Buddha’s instructions for gladdening the mind are not to be skimmed over. Without qualities such as gladness and appreciation we approach practice through the highly conditioned, self-conscious personality. Gladdening must directly touch the citta which cannot be reached through the rational mind or personality. Ajahn suggests accessing citta through imagination and play.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-26 31 Body - The Last Outpost of Sanity 55:10
  Ajahn Sucitto
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The experience of the aggregates doesn’t have to lead to suffering. Addressing the form aggregate of body, Ajahn Sucitto describes ways it teaches us, purifies the heart and mind, and can act as a source of refuge for our long-lasting welfare and benefit.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 30 Q&A 1:13:38
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Translation of vipassana bhumi chant; clarificiation around sutta passage that asserts that a female could never become a Buddha; why we chant the Refuge Mantra 9 times; questions around working with perception; skillful contemplation of independence; taking pleasure from food; how to recognize and clear blocked energy in the body
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-25 29 Returning to Center 53:17
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Citta takes the five khandhå as truth, placing faith in them to be reliable and satisfying. The Buddha likened them to murderous thieves, not trustworthy. Truth is found in our center, not the peripherals. This is where our liberation potential lies.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-24 28 The Luminous Citta 27:56
  Ajahn Sucitto
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The aggregates themselves are not problematic, it’s our blind, desperate clinging to them that causes suffering. It’s possible for citta to radiate into the aggregates and into our lives. First what’s needed is the act of withdrawing into a place of refuge to collect and gather. Then the act of integration, bringing qualities of calm, kindness, resolve into our spee
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-23 27 Don’t Go into Things until You Can Stay Out of Them 41:53
  Ajahn Sucitto
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We need firm ground to stand on before meeting the difficulties of our lives. Without that firm place, the difficulties don’t unravel –you unravel. With cultivation of the five spiritual faculties – indriyas – they become rock solid, enabling us to stand back from experience and allow it to unravel and pass.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 26 Fields as a Way of Experiencing Phenomena 16:45
  Ajahn Sucitto
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In a field of experience, qualities that are assumed to be other people, entities or myself because of the way they’re stuck together can be seen as specific factors that are pliable and flexible. “Field awareness” means a wider span of attention where suppressed, unnoticed, unresolved energies can arise and be discharged, purifying the bodily field.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 25 What Sustains a Steady Heart Energy? 49:41
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Compulsive problematic activations can be replaced with conscious deliberate ones aimed at liberation. Whether in daily activities or in the action of meditation, we can steady and calm energy by orienting around skillful signs – generosity, service, clarity – until the mind is comforted and no longer flowing down old tracks.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2018-11-22 24 Place Attention Direction on the Here and Now 29:37
  Ajahn Sucitto
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There is a different way to meet what arises rather than through our conditioned perceptions, one free of self, other people, the future. Place attention on what’s arising directly as it is.
November 6 - December 4 2018 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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