The greatest gift is the
gift of the teachings
 
Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks at Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge
Ajahn Sucitto
As a monk, I bring a strong commitment, along with the renunciate flavor, to the classic Buddhist teachings. I play with ideas, with humor and a current way of expressing the teachings, but I don't dilute them.
2016-11-14 Keeping it fresh 26:57
Beginning a day, beginning anything, requires openness, letting go of the known. Reorient the mind through deep attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-13 A firm foothold 45:23
Dhamma is a wheel of factors that incline towards awakening. ‘World’ is a wheeling of factors that go nowhere useful. Place a firm footing on the Dhamma through the five indriya.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-13 Puja as practice. 11:51
The use of chanting, ritual and devotional practice to attune the citta to the field of shared aspiration
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-12 Fields and forms – the play of consciousness 43:56
From awareness in the field of sense data, consciousness selects an object. That process generates a subject. In the split between subject and object, demons arise. The true subject has no object, and cannot be tracked. This is presence, awareness.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-12 Chanting: the movement into harmony 10:43
Chanting is trans-rational - it’s not just what it means but what it does. By incorporating the body’s emotionally sensitive energies, and by attuning to others, it brings us to harmony.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-11 Strengthening the bodily field through standing 22:18
A standing meditation to cultivate a unified, stable and strong bodily field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-11 Acknowledgement of Fields 56:27
Experience arises as ‘fields’ – for example the visual field. Skilful fields – ‘places’ to dwell in - are necessary and can be generated - for example the moral field, the devotional / sacred field and the embodied field.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2016-11-10 Outline of structures for retreat 14:32
There is a need for healthy structures to replace the defective structures of the socially-generated self.
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 10 to December 9 2016 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-12-08 Morning 46:37
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge
2013-12-07 Closing: Taking Practice into the World - Part 2 53:08
Insight Meditation Society - Forest Refuge November 9 to December 8 2013 at IMS - Forest Refuge

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