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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.
2017-04-10 Mindfulness meets clinging = insight, release. 57:45
Mindfulness can be cultivated in many ways, but the supreme use of it is to restain awareness from clinging to the five aggregates.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-10 Chanting 4:43
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-10 Puja: Alignment to opening beyond self 13:26
Ritual can be used to consciously, clearly enter the sacredness of the moment.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-09 Channels For Release 64:31
Mindfulness can be sustained through a neutral act of observing visual, listening auditory or feeling in ones body. The latter is useful for emotions and psychological afflictions that cannot be opened.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-09 Puja: Yoga of Voice, Yoga of Heart 25:57
Chanting helps to open the body and energize emotional sensitivity. As our voices merge in the group there is harmony. The art of praising a venerable figure uplifts the heart.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-08 The Turning Point - Handling The Senses, Ayya Medhanandi Bhikkhuni -chant leader 1:20:48
The path to nibbana begins by bringing values and virtues into being. As these strengthen, they provide an alternative to the pull of the senses. This leads to liberation
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-08 Mindfulness Of Body - Ground, Space and Rhythm 46:58
Mindfulness of body checks the speed and attitude of our thought world. Exercises in sitting and walking have a similar relaxed mode of attention.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-08 Layers Of Being and Their Peeling 1:16:50
Development of body and mind entails a path of revealing and releasing "layers" of conditioning: physical, sensual, emotional and conceptual.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-08 Puja: Entering The Sacred 53:57
The sacred is a universal, impersonal but subjective mode of experience - of presence, openness, devoid of self-image. With "Puja" we resonate silence and enter it.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat
2017-04-07 Chanting 1:29
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center Holistic Awareness: Monastic Retreat

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