Category: Online Retreats

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 2, talk 5

Ajahn Sucitto (Day 3 on 17 December 2020)

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 3, talk 1

The tool of wisdom cross references thinking, emotion and body. Body helps reveal the heart. Use it to sense and handle emotion. This is using embodied wisdom for the purposes of calming and revealing. It’s how you get to know the bits you don’t know.

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 3, talk 2

Dhamma is a direct experience. You can directly touch it and open up to it. Handle it more with curiosity than trying to figure out what to do about it. Patient, receptive, as the meditator becomes more open stuck mental states can fall away.

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 3, talk 3

Ajahn Sucitto (Day 4 on 18 December 2020)

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 4, talk 1

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 4, talk 2

The energy of citta is conjoined with bodily energy. Steadying and brightening body gives citta a place to rest so it can withdraw from phenomena. With the disentangling from phenomena, the quiet center of citta, the knowingness, becomes more apparent.

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 4, talk 3

Citta needs to be trained to rest back from engagement. By not going into the stories, spreading awareness over the entire body, and letting emotions rise and pass. As citta releases from contact, it accesses a finer more lasting and agreeable sense of security and well-being.

Ajahn Sucitto

Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 4, talk 4