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Dharma Talks given at Vallecitos Mountain Retreat Center
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2016-05-17 Q&A on Faith, on Citta, on Viveka 53:39
Ajahn Sucitto
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-The nature of faith in the Triple Gem to replace personality-view. -The nature of citta (pronounced 'chitta')-heart, mind awareness. -The difference between disengagement and unfeeling disconnection.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Meeting dukkha with primary empathy 48:35
Ajahn Sucitto
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Resolving dukkha comes through revealing its pain, while having the means to do so. These means are samadhi and primary empathy-these take us beyond the trap of conceiving ourselves.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-17 Five Recollections: Aging, Sickness, Death, Separation and Kamma 23:29
Ajahn Sucitto
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Recollecting that these are the planes we get hit by and stuck in. We see the need to resolve old mamma. Meet it with metta-karuna, welcome the dissonances 'home'.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-16 Getting out of the box=rewilding the mind 60:05
Ajahn Sucitto
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'Boxes' are our compartmentalized lives& their drives. Drives activated by tanha(craving). In meeting the edges of our boxes as they arise, meeting with metta-karuna etc. these edges can dissolve.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-15 Goodwill- receiving and forming in the domain of metta 48:27
Ajahn Sucitto
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2016-05-15 Respect for the Triple Gem 22:43
Ajahn Sucitto
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Offering myself to bring forth citta – awareness. This prepared the ground for skillfulness and the willingness to meet hindrances.
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2016-05-15 Cultivating the Measureless leads to release 55:04
Ajahn Sucitto
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The ‘measureless’ domains of goodwill are based on disengagement from ill will, fear and desire. Defense against harm changes to protecting the beautiful heart from confused reactions.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-13 Mutual Individuality 20:47
Ajahn Sucitto
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Becoming a ‘true individual’ occurs when goodwill and sharing take the lead over ‘personal obsession’ and programs based on fear and desire. ‘Sharing blessings’ is a skillful meditation.
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2016-05-13 The Rewilding Project: Mindfulness based on Right View 59:48
Ajahn Sucitto
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Right View presents experience in terms of conditions that create a person, rather than a person who creates/owns/is other than conditions. In the resultant dispassion of Right View beautiful resonances can come forth.
Rewilding The Mind

2016-05-12 Meditation: Accessing natural time and space in the somatic domain 30:37
Ajahn Sucitto
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Mindfulness of breathing can be developed through somatic sensitivity (rather than tracking sensations). This requires and supports a reset of time and space – from felt pressures to natural energy.
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