Speaker: Ajahn Sucitto
(Day 5 Start) Guided Meditation – Turning to ‘I’
Ajahn Sucitto (Day 5, 19 December 2020)
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 1
Beginning the process of centering, set aside what isn’t relevant right now. Strengthen the bodily reference to help support citta. Acknowledge the sense of I am – what is the I, how is that experienced?
Q&A – Balancing Attention and Intention, Third Satipatthana, Sound of Silence
Ajahn Sucitto
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 2
Stillness Flowing
Ajahn Sucitto
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 3
Meet the constant flow of life with the stillness and poise of citta. Relate to it all with respect and mutuality, learning to adapt, flow and listen to life. Practice with cultivation of subtle energies of body and heart and with samādhi. Sutta Reference: SN1:1
Walk Like a Boat
Ajahn Sucitto (talk 20 of online retreat, recorded on 19 December 2020)
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 4
A suggestion for walking meditation, to move like a boat down a river, citta open like a sail spread on the mast. Move through the water of thoughts, impressions, memories. Walk with difficult moods that arise, holding lightly, listening and receiving.
Learning and Expanding Stillness
Ajahn Sucitto
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 5
Citta is used to feeding on stimulation. Use balance and breathing to settle it, get it interested in that still point. Focus on the stillness of dispassion and cooling.
Q&A – Energies, Afterlife, Art, Cruelty, Self and Asubha
Ajahn Sucitto
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 5, talk 6
Open to Wise Attention
Ajahn Sucitto (Day 6, 20 December 2020)
Living, Dying and Liberation – Online Retreat – Day 6, talk 1
We bounce off dukkha rather than digesting it, bound to experience the same characteristic of dukkha in another form. The guiding capacity of citta is wise attention. We must learn to widen and lengthen our attention span. In this space we can contemplate dukkha rather than react to it. Dispassion and goodwill, the natural actions of heart, can then arise.
View from the Balance – End of Retreat Guided Meditation
Ajahn Sucitto
Living, Dying and Liberation – Day 6
Encouragement to have the courage and faith to go against the obligations of our lives and take time to center in citta. Amidst the activities of mind, there’s a place of balance and rest, release and non-clinging.