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Dharma Talks given at London Insight Meditation
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2021-05-02 Precepts and Resolution 26:23
Ajahn Sucitto
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It’s very helpful to start the day with resolution: What can I say no to? What can I say yes to? Using the precepts as a frame, generate boundaries that will moderate energies and help you remain firm and grounded in the face of the floods.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2021-05-01 Q&A1 47:28
Ajahn Sucitto
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Help with hard-wired anger; how to think about ground, space and rhythm in a non-conceptual way; citta seems like a toddler; how to disengage from deep patterns of negativity; how to respond to boredom; is it recommended to thoroughly achieve samatha before moving on to vipassana; how to respond to deep pain in the heart; question about impermanence.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2021-05-01 Guided Meditation: Sense Realm and Heart Realm – Negotiate the Two (39:15) London Insight, 1 May 2021 39:12
Ajahn Sucitto
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Beginning with deep appropriate attention (yoniso manasikāra), attend to where your strengths and values are. Let them grow and be fully felt with awareness. This resources the heart so you can stand your ground in the face of the floods.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2021-05-01 Standing Meditation – The Body Is Intelligent 18:56
Ajahn Sucitto
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Standing meditation compels full body awareness – one gets the sense that the body is intelligent. Once establishing a suitable stance and posture, give attention to how breathing feels in the body. Then, ‘What’s important now?’
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2021-05-01 Guided Meditation – Foundational Practice 28:44
Ajahn Sucitto
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Beginning with a review of the terms mind, heart, body, consciousness, attention and awareness, this guided meditation takes us through their workings. Wise deep attention (yoniso manasikāra) keeps bringing us back to what’s important now.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2021-05-01 Introduction – Establishing Wise Deep Attention 19:14
Ajahn Sucitto
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The floods of sense consciousness and delusion take us away from a place where we might feel stable, assured, comfortable. We experience a loss of autonomy and receptivity. We can use the quality of wise deep attention (yoniso manasikāra) to turn attention to the source of our actions and our being. The roots are found in the domain of body and mind.
London Insight Meditation :  Clearing the Floods

2020-10-11 Energy of Sharing 21:55
Ajahn Sucitto
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A shift in energy affords an opportunity to reform in accordance with Dhamma rather than personal history. The power of love is an energy we can be formed in, and the more widely it’s shared out, the richer and grander we become.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Q&A 35:13
Ajahn Sucitto
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Advice for young people experiencing panic attacks, lack of motivation, depression; how to locate tension and contraction in the body; feeling restless about others’ difficulties and wanting to share Dhamma; working with disconnects in society; working with external sounds in meditation; how to get more steadiness in meditation when body is so uncomfortable.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Recollecting Faith 15:02
Ajahn Sucitto
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We use embodiment as a holding frame to bring heart and mind together. Energy is the meeting point. Recollect your faith – why you do this practice – to uplift and fortify energy. This provides some ballast from being knocked around by the world.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece

2020-10-11 Walking Meditation – Soothing Tension 12:45
Ajahn Sucitto
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The mobility of walking helps soothe feelings of tension and aggression. The loose and the strong aspects as you walk create a feedback loop to circulate energy. A comfortable collectedness of energy can result.
London Insight Meditation :  Finding and Using the Missing Piece

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