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Dharma Talks
given at Dharmagiri
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2020-02-09
Refuges, Precepts and Reflections
61:57
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| We can establish Firm Centre Open Heart as a core way of being. Refuges and precepts offer support as we train to remain awake and attentive outside of retreat. Vows of virtue and morality, when held with firm flexibility, allow wholesome qualities to be transmitted through the open heart. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-08
How to Sustain an Open Heart
66:54
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| We can notice where we add stress to an already painful, difficult situation. The cause is tanhā and upādāna, craving and clinging. Use meditation to review the craving mind and feel the feeling without closing around it. The duty of the heart is to allow phenomena to arise and pass away. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-08
The Healing of an Opened Heart
58:02
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| An open heart is a transmitter of good qualities. Unsettled energies cause intentions and actions to lack clarity and steadiness. Relate to the energies of body, speech and mind with receptivity, compassion and goodwill. It’s the tonality that matters. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-07
Q&A
52:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Can non-monastics in the west reach enlightenment? Attachment in relationships; How to encourage care for the environment; Qualities that free us from world of senses; Freedom from rage resulting from abusive relationships; Compassionate response to racist remarks |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-07
Transformation of Consciousness
64:06
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| There can be a fundamental shifting of intention, of the source of kamma. Rather than following habitual reactions, hold them with a heart of goodwill and restraint. Through the expanding of relational intent is the cessation of suffering and stress. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-06
Mindfulness of Breathing
65:12
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| Rather than being about the inhalation and exhalation of breath, mindfulness of breathing is about soothing the life force energy. As energy settles in the body, many disruptive emotive tendencies are cleared, leaving the heart available to meet experience in a balanced and sensitive way. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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2020-02-06
Kamma and Saṇkhāra
46:33
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Ajahn Sucitto
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| We might experience running down familiar emotional tracks (saṇkhāra). Tracks get laid down by the repeated and habitual reactions to contact (kamma). To clear disturbing and negative tracks, widen attention and check the habitual impulse. The mind naturally seeks harmony and balance. Listen deeply for its response. |
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Firm Center, Open Heart
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