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Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Holistic Awareness and Right Livelihood(Cittaviveka) Mental consciousness experiences in terms of points and lines, holistic awareness is the mode the body uses for its maintenance, health and balance. This is what we cultivate in meditation, so that the heart attunes to it and is also well-maintained, healthy and liberated from stress. Right livelihood is a matter of sustaining this kind of awareness in terms of duties, collaboration and the welfare of others. These clear mental hindrances and restrictions and bring joy into our daily lives.2025-04-1942 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma transmission is based on a mutual openness(Cittaviveka) A review of the Channa Sutta (S.22:90) in which Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed - despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.2025-04-0538 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsAJAHN KARUNIKO | Q&A at Dhammagiri | 5 Spiritual Faculties & Noble 8Fold PathDuring his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko joined our silent afternoon meditation. After the walking meditation, he opened up for a Q&A session, as it was the last opportunity to receive any Dhamma from him, before his departure next day. The first question is about the 5 Spiritual Faculties, and how they relate to developing the Noble 8-Fold Path. Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester, UK in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for several years before coming to take up residence as a novice...2025-04-0422 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsAJAHN KARUNIKO | Power of Stupas | Buddhist Dhamma Talk at DhammagiriDuring his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Brisbane, Australia, Ajahn Karuniko gave a special blessing to the small Buddha statues that we will enshrine in the upper circular niches of our Saddhamma Cetiya. He also encouraged us to use our stupa to focus our faith and gain inspiration to practise Dhamma.Ajahn Karuniko was born in Greater Manchester, UK in 1953. After graduating in Electronic Engineering in 1975 he worked for several years before coming to take up residence as a novice at Cittaviveka in 1982. He became a bhikkhu in 1984 at Cittaviveka with Ajahn Sumedho as his...2025-03-3127 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on Path - deconstruct, return to presence(Cittaviveka) Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our 'Dhamma home'. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.2025-03-2740 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on knowing - empty, open, secure(Cittaviveka) What is the knowing? It’s not the phenomena, not the mood, not the mind. It’s a basic openness that helps one get less impacted by the pleasant and unpleasant. Recognize the aggregates and how they are activated, then stay with the knowing where is no establishment, no activation. This knowing makes way for discernment to arise.2025-03-2643 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on concentration – a skilful gathering of factors and fruits(Cittaviveka) Samadhi is generally translated as 'concentration' but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.2025-03-2555 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on desire(Cittaviveka) This is a desire realm - we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.2025-03-2452 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on effort, an oar in the stream(Cittaviveka) With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.2025-03-2340 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Light on balance(Cittaviveka) March 2025 retreat - talk 1 - This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.2025-03-2235 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Feel truth, avoid plastic(Cittaviveka) Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!2025-03-2242 min
Suara BuddharatanaBisakah Perumahtangga Mencapai Cittaviveka?Dhammasākacchā oleh Bhante Dhammadhiro usai dana makan di Vihāra Buddharatana Medan2025-03-0922 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Patient relationship is the Sangha vehicle(Cittaviveka) (The occasion of Magha Puja)
The Buddha established the Great Assembly (male/female monastic/lay) to preserve the ongoing transmission of Dhamma. Patiently bearing with conditions is the way to curtail negative engagement - and relate more wisely. Thus one acknowledges what arises as objects - and thus reveal the open knowing. With this, a purer relationship to what arises, rather than identifying with it, is established.2025-02-1245 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Stay in your boat(Cittaviveka) Retreat is an occasion in which to repair, reset. In terms of life and meditation practice. In this process, mindfulness is accompanied by atapi - ardour, keeping things fresh - and various forms of clear comprehension (sampajano): to sense what is appropriate and fitting. Through referring to what arises in terms of objects one cultivates comprehension of purpose: to know objects as they are, and not self. This is comprehension in terms of non-delusion. There is also comprehension in terms of context (gocara), both internal and. external.
This cultivation brings stillness in the midst of conditions, and if we...2025-02-0831 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Return to and Strengthen the Heart(Cittaviveka) Aim to clarify, and strengthen the heart. This is through gathering energy in the heart – that is ‘samadhi’ (concentration). Letting go in the flood of life requires this strength and the relinquishment that support, and are supported by, samadhi. In the presence of a balanced and strengthened citta, we see and respond to the irritations of life in a full-hearted way; The aggregates are cooled. (refers to M64 and S47.42)2025-01-1240 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Entering the undifferentiated(Cittaviveka) Progressive cultivation of mindfulness to maintain presence through the range of states, so that one allows then to pass. Attention is less snagged on different qualities. It opens to simple awareness. Familiar reactions, and with them, identification,subside. Undifferentiated awareness remains. (refers to S.47:42)2025-01-1150 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Wisdom – which mountain and how to climb(Cittaviveka) Practice is about fostering growth based on wisdom, effort and view. Wisdom is conditioned by a faith that leads on to motivation/desire, energy, heart and discriminative attention (iddhipada). Effort should be wisely moderated - to sustain, restrain, persevere, uplift, calm. Application of citta is fundamental to the Path; but make it relevant to uplifting the heart. Details on application to mindfulness of breathing.2025-01-1048 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: The Welcome Vihara(Cittaviveka) Basis of healthy human life is goodwill. Our practice is to welcome, to allow and encompass differences. Speech and action based on Dhamma values establishes skilful common ground. We contemplate the effects of deluded reactions and release them - and the citta dwells in a beautiful place and grows beyond self towards measurelessness.2025-01-0946 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Faith, view and abandonment(Cittaviveka) Messages arise from the citta/heart: world-weariness and a sense of resolve. One begins to withdraw from the input of sense-consciousness and attune to what the citta values: ethics, goodwill and skilful states. So there is a recognition of citta/heart, an intelligence that can reflect upon and moderate consciousness, and moves towards devotion and self-abandonment (refers to A.10:58).2025-01-0848 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Collecting, settling and resting in the body(Cittaviveka) To begin the three months' monastic retreat the community is encouraged to cultivate restraint so that energy can be drawn away from sense- contact and into the heart.2025-01-0743 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsVisits to Amaravati, Muttodaya & Cittaviveka | LPS90 Event | Ajahn DhammasihaAfter his return to Dhammagiri, Ajahn Dhammasiha shares some experiences from his travels.
Some photos can be seen here:
https://travel-pics-ajahn-2.dhammagiri.net
He first attended the huge event for Luang Por Sumedho's 90th birthday at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery near London.
LP Sumedho is the most senior Western disciple of Ajahn Chah, and the founder of Wat Pah Nanachat, Cittaviveka and Amaravati Monasteries.
You can find more info about this great celebration attended by some 140 monastics here:
https://amaravati.org/luang-por-sumedhos-birthday-update-june-2024/
Ajahn Dhammasiha also visited...2024-06-2541 min
Dhamma on the SidewalkAnd Now Swim She Said - Conversations in Bhutan Part 3Unfiltered, unedited, conversation #19 is Part #3 of the conversations with Ven. Thinley Jamtsho about some chunks of my personal journey and at being at a junction… There is a lot more about keeping the precepts, and actual seated practice, these here are only a few highlights.
Resources:
Abhayagiri: http://www.abhayagiri.org
Amaravati: http://www.amaravati.org
Birken Forest Monastery: http://www.birken.ca
Temple Forest Monastery: https://forestmonastery.org/
Tisarana: https://tisarana.ca/
Chithurst Forest Monastery: http://www.cittaviveka.org
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2024-04-0322 minDhamma on the SidewalkAnd Now Swim!Unfiltered, unedited, conversation #19 is part #3 of the conversations with Ven. Thinley Jamtsho about my personal journey and being at a crossroad…
Resources:
Abhayagiri: http://www.abhayagiri.org
Amaravati: http://www.amaravati.org
Birken Forest Monastery: http://www.birken.ca
Temple Forest Monastery: https://forestmonastery.org/
Tisarana: https://tisarana.ca/
Chithurst Forest Monastery: http://www.cittaviveka.org
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Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsParitta Chanting New Uposatha Hall Wat Pah Nanachat | Maha Sangha 100 Monks | Ajahn Dhammasiha | New Sima BotAuspicious recitation of Paritta ('Protective Verses & Blessings') at the inauguration of the new Uposatha Hall and Sima ('monastic boundary') at Wat Pah Nanachat, the international Forest Monastery established by Ajahn Chah in Ubon, Thailand.The event was attended by Ajahn Dhammasiha and more than 100 monks in the tradition of Ajahn Chah. Many of the most senior Western disciples were present, including abbots of many monasteries worldwide:Ajahn Kevali - Abbot of Wat Pah Nanachat (hosting the event)Luang Por Pasanno (leading the chanting) - Retired abbot of Abhayagiri, CaliforniaLuang Por Tiradhammo...2022-12-2919 min
Escaping Samsara#7 Ajahn Succito: If you won't create your own life - the world will create it for you On this episode we talk to Ajahan Succito a british-born Buddhist monk and former abbot of Cittaviveka monestry in the UK. I became aware of Ajahn Succito when my teacher gave a series of talks on the Paramis – the Buddhist virtues – based on his book on the subject. I hadn’t heard of the Paramis or Succito but my teacher was so enthused by his presentation of the subject I couldn’t help but get a copy which turned out to be easy as all his books are freely available here. I...2022-12-081h 20Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Gaia House)Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A(Cittaviveka) 01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to s...2022-10-0740 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A(Cittaviveka) 01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to s...2022-10-0740 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A(Cittaviveka) 01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to s...2022-10-0740 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A(Cittaviveka) 01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to s...2022-10-0740 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Cittaviveka)Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A(Cittaviveka) 01:32 Where can I get a print copy of your book Breathing Like a Buddha? (also PDF here: https://cdn.amaravati.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/Breathing-Like-a-Buddha-Web.pdf); 02:24 How can I contribute some dana to you? (also see here: https://www.cittaviveka.org/online-donations and navigate to Chithurst); 04:04 When you speak of the energy body, is that the embodied sense of self? 06:35 What did you mean when you said “The space within and without the body where mental formations form”? 11:33 Could you speak about the phrases the Buddha uses in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta? 13:12 What causes unskilful behaviour or though to arise and to s...2022-10-0740 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsAJAHN KARUNIKO | Dhamma Discussion and Q&A at DhammagiriVenerable Ajahn Kāruṇiko has been a Bhikkhu for 37 years. He ordained at Cittaviveka Monastery as a disciple of Luang Por Sumedho in the early 80ies, and has served as abbot of Cittaviveka from 2015 to 2020. He has also spent 3 years with Luang Por Anan at Wat Marp Jan in Tailand.
Cittaviveka is the first monastery of the tradition of Ajahn Chah outside of Thailand. Ajahn Chah has personally visited the property, and provided guidance and encouragement to Ajahn Sumedho during the very difficult foundation and renovation period.
You can learn more about Chithurst Monastery here:
https://www.cittaviveka.org
We...2022-05-101h 08
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsAJAHN KARUNIKO | The Refuge from Thinking: Body Awareness EdNormGMicDuring his visit to Dhammagiri Forest Hermitage, Ajahn Kāruṇiko addresses a very common problem in meditation - too much thinking.Luang Por encourages us to bring awareness into the Body. The Buddha himself warned us that whoever neglects mindfulness directed to the body, neglects the path to the deathless. If we can establish mindfulness and awareness within our body, we will be able to let go of excessive thinking.Ajahn Kāruṇiko has been a Bhikkhu for 37 years. He ordained at Cittaviveka Monastery as a disciple of Luang Por Sumedho in the early 80ies, and has served as abb...2022-05-0524 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsAJAHN KARUNIKO | GUIDED MEDITATION at Dhammagiri Forest HermitageDuring his visit at Dhammagiri, Luang Por Kāruṇiko kindly agreed to lead a guided meditation for our regular Sunday afternoon program.He begins by reminding us to be aware of our intention when we meditate:Are we trying to get something out of it?Are we trying to repeat a previous very pleasant experience?Ajahn Kāruṇiko has been a Bhikkhu for 37 years. He ordained in Cittaviveka Monastery as a disciple of Luang Por Sumedho in the early 80ies, and has served as abbot of Cittaviveka from 2015 to 2020. He has also spent 3 years with Luang Por Anan at Wat...2022-05-0330 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsThe Chithurst Story: George Sharp's Commitment to Cittaviveka | Ajahn DhammasihaOn occasion of Ajahn Karuniko's visit, Ajahn Dhammasiha talks about the foundation of Cittaviveka Monastery in 1979.
Cittaviveka, in Sussex, England, is the first monastery of the tradition of Ajahn Chah in a Western country. Ajahn Dhammasiha relates crucial events of its establishment, as described in the book "The Chithurst Story" by George Sharp. It required great courage and dedication from George Sharp as secretary of the 'English Sangha Trust', and very hard work and sacrifice by the sangha and countless volunteers, to turn a derelict English country manor into beautiful Chithurst monastery with a thriving community of monks, nuns and...2022-04-2757 min
10% Happier with Dan HarrisUnseating the Inner Tyrant | Ajahn SucittoNew episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Often, we are our own worst critic. In this episode, Buddhist monk Ajahn Sucitto explores ways to unseat the inner tyrant and make peace with the nagging voice inside of you that seems to always demand perfection, but never offer praise. Ajahn Sucitto was raised in the United Kingdom and became a monk in 1975 in the lineage of the Thai forest master, Venerable Ajahn Chah. In 1979, h...2022-04-0449 min
Terrapura: Meditazione, Mindfulness, BuddhismoMeditazione sul lasciar andareUno dei temi importanti della meditazione, se non il più importante, è quello di lasciar andare le tensioni, i blocchi mentali, gli attaccamenti. Permetterci di lasciar andare consente di ammorbidire il corpo, la mente e il cuore e di rimanere aperti a quelle intuizioni che la saggezza può offrirci.
Ma quando ci sediamo in meditazione, o anche durante la giornata quando riusciamo ad avvertire queste tensioni, non è sempre semplice il lasciar andare. Diventa così anche questo fonte di stress: voler lasciar andare senza riuscirci.
Con questa meditazione vogliamo proprio esplorare questa possibilità, sviluppando la nostra abilità di asco...2021-11-2629 min
Dhammagiri Buddhist PodcastsThree Kinds of Seclusion | Dhamma Talk by Ajahn DhThe Buddha distinguishes three kinds of seclusion:Physical Seclusion ('Kāyaviveka')Mental Seclusion ('Cittaviveka') = SamādhiSeclusion from all Aquisitions/Attachments ('Upadhiviveka') = Realization of NibbānaWe have to develop them gradually, deepening them step by little step, based on each other. We can start with bodily seclusion, by at least occasionally retiring into an empty room for an hour, without any gedgets, mobile, internet, social media or interaction with anyone. www.dhammagiri.org.auwww.facebook.com/dhammagiri-forest-hermitagewww.youtube.com/channel/UCJINt0JJBfFm_x0FZcU9QJwwww.tinyletter.com/dhammagiri/archive2021-10-1220 min
The Fourth Messenger Podcast - Teachings and Art from the SanghaDaily Life Jhāna | Ajahn SucittoOrdained for over forty years, Ajahn Sucitto trained under Ven. Ajahn Sumedho in the lineage of the Thai forest master, Ven. Ajahn Chah. He was part of the group that established Cittaviveka, Chithurst Forest Monastery, in England.2021-10-1128 min
k Radio Trani8/8/2021 Ajahn Sucitto : « Buddhism and Environmental Concern »Dhamma talk and Q&A session (#3) offered by Venerable Ajahn Sucitto, former abbot of Wat Cittaviveka in England, a monastery in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah https://www.cittaviveka.org 'Buddhism and Environmental Concern' 6th December, 2019 (18.30 - 20.00) Meditation Hall Buddhadāsa Indapañño Archives, Bangkok For other teachings by Ajahn Sucitto, please visit: https://ajahnsucitto.org/ https://forestsangha.org/teachings/bo... https://www.cittaviveka.org/index.php... https://sucitto.blogspot.com/ About Ven. Ajahn Sucitto: Ajahn Sucitto was born in London in 1949. Before entering monastic life, he graduated from England's University of Warwick with a degree in...2021-08-077h 38
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Closing Remarks(Cittaviveka) Parting words and expressions of gratitude from the teachers. “These are opportunities in this human realm to experience letting go, gratitude, compassion, gladness, equanimity.”2021-07-1612 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Living from Dhamma(Cittaviveka) How do we meet the past, the difficulties? How do we maintain hearts of love through dreadful things? If we let ourselves come into contraction then we’re not capable of the love that’s needed in the next moment. So we stay in empathetic connection to things, keeping a sense of forgiveness, understanding and kamma – cause and effect. This is our training, these acts of love.2021-07-1519 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Ripening the heart with friendship(Cittaviveka) When the heart’s deliverance is not yet ripe, a good friend is recommended. One who keeps me aligned to what’s precious, who’s respectful and shows care and connection. We seek this externally, and also internally, being a good friend to oneself – not harsh, not critical, staying connected with what is loving, kind, upright and generous. We take it as a protection wherever we go.2021-07-1529 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: The place of joy(Cittaviveka) A mind that is capable of delight and appreciation is needed for waking up. But how capable are we of that? It’s something to train in, a practice in balance, of finding the middle way. Let the tenderness and appreciation we have for beings be for our own being, our own awakening consciousness. Take in the kindness people show us and come out of the sense of alienation. Let this cultivation bring joy and gladness to the heart.2021-07-1524 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 6 Q&A(Cittaviveka) Balance between discipline and self-love; failure as a shadow side of practice; addiction to Dhamma talks/books; skillful way to deal with anger; benefits of regulating breath.2021-07-1555 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Open Practice 30 min with bell(Cittaviveka)2021-07-1430 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Guided Meditation - The capacity to be here(Cittaviveka) Taking care with what we connect with, with that which supports our capacity to be here – grounded, present, receptive. Guard from anything that takes us away from the fullness of citta. In this place we keep meeting whatever is arising with qualities of friendliness and welcome, everything belongs. From that place of welcome, response happens. Love meets love.2021-07-1409 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Upright in the 4 Noble Truths(Cittaviveka) If we come back to the primary frame of this teaching, the work is to understand how this heart gets agitated, to see how suffering arises. If we are upright, if we have this sense of goodness and connectedness, there’s a capacity to meet the difficulties rather than struggle with it. Grounded in this strength, remain available to what’s happening here.2021-07-1429 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 5 Q&A(Cittaviveka) Difference between wise caution and anxious reaction; use of psychiatric medicines; please condense teachings and instructions for practice; cultivating relationship with gods/celestial beings; commitment to waking up entangled with wanting and striving; transitions in place, experience and practice.2021-07-1452 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Dhamma as Uprighting and Encouraging(Cittaviveka) Let the Dhamma resonate and support our understanding of our own lives. The encouragement is to come to know it for oneself. Come into body, ground, here, establish mindfulness. Whatever is happening, we have a way of meeting it and coming into right relationship in a way that steadies and frees the heart.2021-07-1328 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Serving the Dhamma(Cittaviveka) The Buddha’s teaching is a deepening examination of cause and effect. It takes us out of the contraction of self-view, stress and suffering and into the possibility of waking up. Take in the teachings as nourishment, let them soothe and stabilize the citta. We’ve been given all we need. Trusting the process, trusting ourselves, let us serve this awakening heart.2021-07-1353 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 4 Q&A(Cittaviveka) Maintaining mindfulness on sleeping and waking up; relationship between being sensitive and taking things personally; human enhancement and right view; sense is of being a frightened deer – practices for inner sense of security; gathering the good for wandering mindstates.2021-07-1354 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: The Mettā Sutta and Things as Process(Cittaviveka) When we cultivate and sustain the deep friendliness and well-wishing described in the Mettā Sutta, a certain clarity starts to arise – one recognizes the shifting nature of everything, arising dependent on conditions. The upright heart grounded in love allows us to be present to what is. The grip of certainty softens and the tendency towards fixed views falls away.2021-07-1232 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Sitting in the Place of Awakening(Cittaviveka) Wherever you are, waking up is here. It’s not somewhere else in some other time, it doesn’t belong to somebody out there. Let us come out of small senses of ourselves and take up this tremendous teaching. Again and again, establishing faith and confidence regarding the heart, letting insight arise – this is how we touch nibbāna in the body. [SN 48:50]2021-07-1230 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 3 Q&A(Cittaviveka) How to respond to the energy of craving (taṇhā); how to navigate states of calm; advice for approaching cancer without fighting/setting up a war; how to work with thinking, between suppressing in meditation and reacting while living in the world; encountering doubt after 20 years of practice; how to work with unhappiness/sadness.2021-07-1258 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Love, Intrinsic to the 4 Noble Truths(Cittaviveka) We may wonder where love sits in the whole of the Buddha’s teachings. It’s not always directly pointed at in the suttas, but heart cultivations enable citta to know dukkha and wake up to the way things are. Citta is strengthened in its capacity to be present with skillfulness and love, support for which are provided by body and breath.2021-07-1128 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Establishing Path Factors(Cittaviveka) Returning to sitting, supporting citta to settle and open, we give it skillful things it can be in touch with – breathing, the heart medicines. Understanding the power of perception and feeling, we place attention carefully, bringing qualities of welcome, availability, friendliness – guarding against what is harmful and afflicting. Just knowing, body feels like this, citta feels like this.2021-07-1143 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Standing Meditation - Keeping this Embodied Reference(Cittaviveka) Guidance for transitioning to standing, staying present, letting uprightness establish itself. Keeping the quality of opening, meeting what is here with love and friendliness, letting breath wash any strain away.2021-07-1120 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Taking care of the citta, putting down what is unhelpful, attuning to what is helpful(Cittaviveka) In this cultivation we’re deepening our understanding of the heart that is at home. The soothing and relaxing quality of breathing supports citta to meet whatever arises. With qualities of love, friendliness and compassion, attune to cause and effect, putting down what brings agitation and contraction, and aligning to what brings well-being.2021-07-1143 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 2 Q&A(Cittaviveka) Questions have been grouped by theme: Breathing; how do we work with the regret; questions around citta; how does piti (rapture) manifest in the body; heart feels like a lump of black coal.2021-07-1152 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Inflections of Love(Cittaviveka) We practice coming into full presence with the unshakable qualities of heart the Buddha pointed to. Noticing what is here, our relationship with it and the different inflections of the heart. If there’s hostility or unkindness, these are not true, they are defilements that obscure the truth. They need meeting and understanding, but not believing in. What is needed now is the quality of mettā, that deep well-wishing with the absence of any kind of hostility.2021-07-1053 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Guided Meditation - Trusting the Process(Cittaviveka) Establishing uprightness of mind, heart and body - ground and feel ourselves here. With friendliness and non-contention, opening and attuning to what’s here, establishing presence with the way things are.2021-07-1010 minDharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksWilla Thaniya Reid: Relaxing into the Flow of Breath(Cittaviveka) As we establish this time of practice, we approach it with faith in the possibility of awakening. Upright in the energetic sense of heart and body, open to what is here. Let the beautiful energy of breathing stroke through the whole of experience of body. Soothing, calming, bringing well-being.2021-07-101h 04Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Willa Thaniya Reid's most recent Dharma talksAjahn Sucitto, Willa Thaniya Reid: Day 1 Q&A – Common Problems(Cittaviveka) How to deal with bodily pain; what to do when mind is obsessively thinking; mind goes dull and I keep falling asleep; what to do with weird energies that can happen; I can’t seem to do breath meditation.2021-07-1053 min
The Fourth Messenger Podcast - Teachings and Art from the SanghaThe Pleasure of Release | Ajahn SucittoOrdained for over forty years, Ajahn Sucitto trained under Ven. Ajahn Sumedho in the lineage of the Thai forest master, Ven. Ajahn Chah. He was part of the group that established Cittaviveka, Chithurst Forest Monastery, in England. More information and monastic teachings may be found at https://www.fourthmessenger.org.2021-02-2049 min
The Body Knows PodcastEP#007 | Ajahn Sucitto | The Wisdom of the Body: A Buddhist PerspectiveThis first episode of The Body Knows Podcast of 2021 is with senior, Western Buddhist monk Ajahn Succito, and we could not be happier to be sharing his deep, compassionate, somatic wisdom as we set forth into the New Year together.
Ajahn Sucitto entered monastic life in 1975 in Thailand, but been based in Britain since 1978. He spent fourteen years training under Ajahn Sumedho, the senior Western disciple of the Thai Forest Buddhist master Luang Por Chah, and so is part of that direct lineage of Theravadan monastic practice. Beginning in 1979 with the founding of Chittaviveka monastery in Chithurst...2021-01-041h 18Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Public Talk: Guide to Unrestricted Awareness(Cittaviveka) A good teacher (Acariya) encourages and pushes the mind of the disciple away from the changeable world presented by sense-consciousness, to the more fruitful reality that’s centred on Dhamma. In this talk, the principles of this are pointed out, and as exemplified by Ajahn Chah. This talk was offered on Ajahn2020-06-171h 15Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Public Talk: Guide to Unrestricted Awareness(Cittaviveka) A good teacher (Acariya) encourages and pushes the mind of the disciple away from the changeable world presented by sense-consciousness, to the more fruitful reality that’s centred on Dhamma. In this talk, the principles of this are pointed out, and as exemplified by Ajahn Chah. This talk was offered on Ajahn2020-06-171h 15Ajahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Q&A on Kamma(Cittaviveka)2020-06-0742 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Q&A on Kamma(Cittaviveka)2020-06-0742 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Kamma(Cittaviveka) Kamma – what it is, how it works, and why understanding it is crucial2020-06-0717 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Online Lay Forum: Kamma(Cittaviveka) Kamma – what it is, how it works, and why understanding it is crucial2020-06-0717 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Community of Berkeley)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort(Cittaviveka) There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.2020-05-2951 minAjahn Sucitto's most recent Dharma talks (Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center)Ajahn Sucitto: Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery Uposatha Public Talk: The Foundation for Relinquishment Is Comfort(Cittaviveka) There are many meditation techniques, but fundamental is finding where the mind will settle - what citta finds comfort in. The more energy rests in that and returns to is, energy is consolidated instead of scattered, running out to external forms. This is the principle for clarification, purification, for awakening.2020-05-2951 min
Featured Dhamma TalksVesākha Puja May 6 - Ajahn SucittoDhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto on Vesaka Puja May 6 2020.2020-05-2454 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - The Way Out Of The FloodAudio Dhamma Talk from Live Dhamma Video Stream recorded on 26th April. 2020-05-0138 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Hindrances (Vintage Talk 2017)Ajahn Sucitto, training talk 20 September 2017 recorded at Cittaviveka2020-04-1144 minFeatured Dhamma TalksEnergy - Ajahn Sucitto (Vintage Talk 2012)Energy - A Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto recorded at Cittaviveka in 20122020-03-3153 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Gavesako - Protecting Oneself and OthersProtecting Oneself and Others.
Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Gavesako on 7 March 2020 2020-03-0825 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Citta, kamma and awakeningDhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto, 25 Jan 2020 2020-01-2950 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Anatta Is The Way OutThe unawakened worldly mind seeks to accumulate. It generates a sense of self from holding on. The Anatta-lakkhaṇa Sutta points to release and letting go. We practice standing back from phenomena, allowing things to move and shift without reacting to them. Just witnessing and awake – this is liberation.2020-01-2452 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Ācariya Puja - Recollect PāramīĀcariya Puja - Recollect Pāramī (1:03:51) 16.01.20, Evening Public Talk
A recollection of the qualities and effects of the teacher, Ajahn Chah. A teacher’s presence can bring forth a lot in people. They recognize the potential for strength that is there for all of us and help us develop pāramī.2020-01-161h 03
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Cunda - Be Content with GoodnessDhamma Talk at Cittaviveka 28-12-19 by Ajahn Cunda2020-01-0648 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sumedho - You don't walk like Ajahn ChahDhamma Talk recorded at Cittaviveka, 17 November 20052019-12-291h 18
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Approach to Samadhi and its BenefitsDhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto 2019 10 12, Chithurst Buddhist Monastry2019-12-2838 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Cooking Good DhammasDhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto 2019-07-222019-12-2836 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Ahimsako - Knowing States of MindSaturday evening Dhamma Talk at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery.2019-12-2736 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Khemasiri - Knowing Ajahn Khemasiri - Knowing, Dhanma talk at Cittaviveka 14-12-192019-12-2544 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Ahimsako - The Natural Order of ThingsAjahn Ahimsako - Dhamma Talk Cittaviveka 13 / 7 /20192019-12-2437 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Mindfulness and Non-clingingDhamma Talk at Cittaviveka 31/07/ 20192019-12-2351 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Thitadhammo Reads Ajahn Chah on his 100 AnniversaryAjahn Thitadhammo 2018 - 06 - 17 2019-12-2218 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Get Me That BunnyDhamma Talk, Ajahn Sucitto 2018 05 12 2019-12-2247 minFeatured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Releasing Compulsive Programs of the Mind.Releasing Compulsive Programs of the Mind - Dhamma talk 2010 by Ajahn Sucitto2019-12-2239 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto 2010 The Purification of Self Like a Flowing SpringDhamma talk by Ajahn Sucitto at Cittaviveka 20102019-12-2232 min
Featured Dhamma TalksLP Sumedho - Seeing Through the First Three FettersDhamma Talk recorded at Cittaviveka 2005-10-122019-12-1551 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sumedho - Direct KnowingDhamma Talk recorded at Cittaviveka 2005-10-152019-12-151h 08
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto - Non GraspingDhamma Talk by Ajahn Sucitto at Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery 2019_07_212019-12-0638 min
Featured Dhamma TalksAjahn Sucitto Integration and ReleaseFeatured Dhamma Talks given at Chithurst Buddhist Monastery2019-12-0551 min
Ajahn Sumedho Podcast by AmaravatiWords Of Gratitude and Kathina TalkThis talk was given by Ajahn Sumedho on 7 November 2010, during the Kathina Ceremony at Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery.
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2014-11-0645 min
108 Talks by Ajahn SumedhoCittaviveka Dhamma Hall opening (2004)These Dhamma talks or reflections are given by Luang Por Sumedho during the course of 1978 until 2010. These talks have been compiled when Luang Por Sumedho retired from abbotship of Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in 2010.
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2014-10-1253 min
Dharma Seed - dharmaseed.org: Catherine McGee's most recent Dharma talksCatherine McGee: Cittaviveka(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) The un-gluing of the heart-mind from stickiness. Working with the inner critic. Singing a Rumi poem2013-12-3058 min