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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
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2019-05-10 Training in Direct Knowing 22:29
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Standing Meditation: Contemplate Inner and Outer Space 23:13
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Sensing the space beyond the skin boundary, and the space felt ‘within’ the body. The two can blend. In this way, they facilitate our experience of breathing.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-10 Wisdom as Know-How 55:45
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-09 Don’t Take Saṁsāra Personally 52:32
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-07 Standing Meditation: Restraining the Mind So the Body Can Speak 22:51
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-07 Free Your Inner Dog 60:42
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-06 Standing Meditation: Appropriate Intentions and Attitudes 24:05
  Ajahn Sucitto
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Scanning over the body we are appropriately sensitive, naming and lingering with awareness. There’s a certain sensitive touch and the body responds with warmth and subtle energy. It’s a matter of placing attention with the right intention.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-06 Storing Up the Good 55:54
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Open the Heart to the Beautiful and Good 1:17:50
  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.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

2019-05-05 Standing Meditation: Balance and Alignment Enable Letting Go 41:38
  Ajahn Sucitto
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A guided meditation to establish a balanced upright posture upon which the rest of the body can relax and let go. It may not do so quickly, so be patient with how the body actually is, always attending with a mind of sympathy and goodwill.
The Touch of Dhamma - May 2019 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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