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Ajahn Sucitto's Dharma Talks
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.
2017-07-28 05: Put Aside What’s Unnecessary 13:16
The contemplative process is one where you bring to mind simple things and put aside what’s unnecessary, obstructive and irrelevant. Not with aversion, but just noticing that in most of our life we’re moving forward into qualities of pressure, important business, people – but they’re only there because your mind put them there. There doesn’t have to be the drive forward, doesn’t have to be a next. Take time to stop and notice what’s not needed, notice what’s already here.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-28 04: Walking without Headism 12:43
Ajahn Sucitto addresses a form of bodily discrimiation called “headism.” It says, “I’m on top, everything is secondary to me,” and it drags everything underneath it around. Headism can be overcome by operating through the body rather than through the head. It can be practiced in walking meditation.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-28 03: Feeling the Body 4:13
Guidance to settle into the seated posture, relaxing the body, sensing ground and space.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-28 02: Standing meditation - Elements and Directions 13:35
What tells you you have a body? Guidance provided to sense the particular signals that tell us we have a body in the forms of elements and directions.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-07-28 01: A Harmony of Body and Mind 27:27
Meditation is where the body and mind interact. Physical form creates the boundary within which to dwell. No third party is needed, no abstractor, no one to do anything. Just allow body and mind to come into harmony autonomously.
Aruna Ratanagiri Buddhist Monastery :  Retreat with Ajahn Sucitto
2017-06-17 End of Retreat Reflections: Four Reference Points 32:33
Ajahn Sucitto leaves the group with four reference points to continue relating to as we leave retreat: relating to embodiment, to people, to earth and to the sacred. Themes of pausing, subjectivity and respect run through.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment
2017-06-17 Early Morning Reflections: Don’t Go into Automatic – What’s Beautiful Now? 12:27
An automatic quality can take over as we practice. It happens when we retain the past: I am this, I had this experience, I want to have another experience… Instead we can arise and awaken into this body even when it’s not so comfortable and bright. Receive everything as a gift, as something new. Access what’s beautiful now.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment
2017-06-16 I Teach Pleasure 62:57
The Buddha taught pleasure. When the mind feels safe and comforted, it doesn’t crave. It loses its fear and regret. This is pleasant. Sila helps us practice this skill of turning things to the subtle pleasure of releasing stress and pressure. We stop creating the boundary of self and other that prevents unification. To others as to myself.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment
2017-06-16 Qigong Instructions: Cow, Crane & Dragon 47:56
Warming up feet, legs, hips, arms; kwa squats; drawing the thread (shoulder opening); cow gazing at the moon; crane spreads its wings; punching the dragon; neutral position
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment
2017-06-16 Teaching on Embodiment and Guided Meditation – Descending from the Top of Your Brain to the Basin of Your Heart 61:10
As we meditate, we might find ourselves dropping through layers of experience. Bits that are stuck and not yet resolved keep getting triggered. What we thought was past keeps coming in – people, places, events – and it’s happening now. But there is something that doesn’t move forward in time, a foundational experience of just being present. From this place of primary embodiment, where citta meets the body, we can begin to release the layers of construction that bind us.
Meditationszentrum Beatenberg The Wisdom of Embodiment

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