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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
2022-12-12 Q&A 65:06
Ajahn Sucitto
00:25 Regarding rebirth or further birth, Therevadans and Tibetans seems to have very different things to say about this. Is it useless speculation to consider what happens after death? 13:17 Can you please distinguish between kilesa, asava and anutsara? 17:41 Why is consciousness likened to an illusion? 31:22 Could you please speak about the external and internal aspect of the sense fields mentioned in the satipatthanna? 36:03 I get very stirred up when I received kindness from others. What do you suggest? 41:35 You mentioned a tendency to look for open space as related to an experience as an infant of being confined in a cradle. How did that memory and understanding come up for you? 46:09 Can you remind us about mano sancetana – what it is and how it works? 53:57 Is nibanna a description of a mind in which the defilements are uprooted or is it that which does the uprooting? 55:21 Can you speak about the significance of noticing neutral sensations? Why is this useful? 56:51 Vicara and dhamma vijaya both explore an object. How are they different or similar? 1:00:18 I’d appreciate some more specific instructions about the movements and placements of hands during the bowing ritual.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-12 Puja and recollection to enter dhamma 23:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Using ritual to wrap around the day provides a stable frame to hold the circumstantial world. Its images and resonances create a place marker (nimmita) for contemplation.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-11 GM - Cultivation of Brahmaviihara 28:08
Ajahn Sucitto
These “treasures of the contemplatives” are important in the culture of gladdening the citta. In the citta’s own bounty we find what our life needs.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-11 Advice for post retreat 58:18
Ajahn Cunda
Anticipating the end of retreat comes with the desire for (or fear of) becoming. The challenge is to engage with it with embodied wisdom with the tools we’ve been using.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge Mapping the Territory: New Light on the Satipatthana

2022-12-11 Puja sets the right relationship 17:25
Ajahn Sucitto
Puja provides a steady frame for meditation and helps to ward off dullness and stale familiarity in daily practice. Its fresh vitality undermines ingrained behaviours and attitudes.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-10 Anatta for liberation 64:08
Ajahn Sucitto
Through retreat we learn the trigger points where the I Am occurs. We see the potential for a remedy, a liberated citta, by removing the self from the picture and trusting embodied awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-09 Gladdening the citta (with 20 min silence) 35:15
Ajahn Sucitto
Recalling our moral behaviour, our generosity, we experience the joyful energy that results. Citta enters samadhi when it is gladdened.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-07 Self, enquiry into clinging 54:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Sometimes the heart feels trapped distracted, or passionately involved with experience. This too changes. Training the citta to know itself releases this.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-06 Meeting yourself in an unfamiliar way (with 44 min silence) 65:06
Ajahn Sucitto
Meeting what is disappointing and frustrating in an unfamiliar way and through contemplating the immediate experience of body and mind, release ownership. This reveals warm heartedness and compassion.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

2022-12-06 Citta processes and awareness 57:18
Ajahn Sucitto
Citta is central to our experience of life and can be experienced separately from the energies and moods it is so involved with. It's a kind of '"awareing" that can be contemplated as sense data lands.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge ORIGINAL RECORDINGS, TO BE EDITED - Ajahn Sucitto at IMS-FR

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