Clearing the Floods - Dealing with Internal and External Overload (Dharma Seed: Retreat talks)

Jun 03 2021 50 ep. 31 mins 37

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Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.

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Ajahn Sucitto: Puja and Chanting

May 29 2021 48 mins

(Cittaviveka) Puja means honor or praise. It’s an important gesture to cultivate – the sense of rising up to something beautiful, something worthy. Making offerings, bowing, chanting and meditating are steadying and calming acts that massage the energies of body, heart and mind.

Ajahn Sucitto: Chanting - Recollection of the Triple Gem

May 29 2021 5 mins

Ajahn Sucitto: Precepts – A Way to Cross the Floods

May 29 2021 47 mins

(Cittaviveka) Determining to keep precepts is a way to cross the floods. They help check and restrain urges of gratification, malice and escapism. Coming from a place of ethics and mutuality naturally gives rise to pleasant states of being, giving us an orientation we want to remain with rather than following the immediate pull of inclination.

Ajahn Sucitto: Establishing Firm Ground

May 29 2021 42 mins

(Cittaviveka) To stand against the tide of the floods we need firm ground. Established first in the body, mental/heart energies pick up the same theme of stability and core presence. This is the process of samatha – calming, stabilizing, giving one firm ground.

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Body Energy Fields

May 29 2021 23 mins

(Cittaviveka) In standing, sitting and free movement postures, exercise an attitude of goodwill, sympathy and encouragement to invite body channels to open. Energies know what to do – body wants to wants to arrive at wholeness.

Ajahn Sucitto: Day 1 Q&A

May 29 2021 44 mins

(Cittaviveka) Can we chant just in the heart, without sound; Buddhism’s view on healing with energy; how to work with various energy blocks and imbalances; feeling disoriented when letting go of a topic and giving attention to body energies; what importance to give to thought; how does one cultivate absorption, to be with intense emotions; when only eating before noon does hunger

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Rhythm and Energy of Breathing

May 29 2021 42 mins

(Cittaviveka) Deal with the compulsions of becoming by tackling energy in the body. Thoughtful breathing becomes comfortable and soothing. Its rhythm moderates the floods, diffusing stressful energies and psychologies. Heart and body draw close in the enjoyment. From this place of samādhi you can stand back from the most fundamental flood of becoming.

Ajahn Sucitto: Refuge Mantra Chanting

May 30 2021 1 mins

Ajahn Sucitto: Guided Meditation – Open Stability

May 30 2021 23 mins

(Cittaviveka) In meditation we’re resetting the dynamic movement of mental and physical energies with open energy. Using body as a guide, resonate the sense of balance and stability throughout. Let mindfulness deepen and maintain a wide-open energy that is receptive.

Ajahn Sucitto: Sharing Heart

May 30 2021 10 mins

(Cittaviveka) Once an open stability has been established, we can work from this basis, engaging decisively from the place of giving. Bringing the quality of a giving heart to mind, allow yourself to be touched and feel moved. Continue practicing with the resonances of the brahmaviharā.