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Dharma Talks given at Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center
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2005-05-09 Out Beyond Our Ideas Of Right And Wrong 53:04
Sharda Rogell
What can we trust? Can we trust our conceptual framework of right and wrong? The Buddha's teachings point to something more reliable. What is it?
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-30 How, Not What - Life As Rhythm 36:35
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping experiences life as "things." This brings stress. To handle radical insubstantiality, we attune to rhythm, energy—breathing.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-29 Meditation Processes 57:32
Ajahn Sucitto
Finding a base in the present and releasing into the flow of experience.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-28 Cleansing The Heart Of Impression 1:19:21
Ajahn Sucitto
Contact brings impressions into the heart, which gets retrained at an involuntary level and affect our immediate response to life in terms of fear, mistrust, desire. There are ways of clearing this—the result is joy.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-27 Working With Sankhara 64:50
Ajahn Sucitto
We experience life through somatic, emotive, & psychological sensitivity that adopts patterns. Practice is about releasing old afflicted patterns.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-26 Morning Instructions: Tactile & Somatic Awareness 46:41
Ajahn Sucitto
An aspect of our Kammic patterning is the mode of consciousness that is selected to process experience—normally this is visual or conceptual. If we use the tactile consciousness it has an emotive resonance and truer response.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Embodied Language - The Elements 53:29
Ajahn Sucitto
Grasping affects the way we conceive experience: "Head Language," "Body Language." Body language is freer from reactions, assumptions, interpretations.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-25 Embodiment: Handling Dukkha 61:26
Ajahn Sucitto
By spreading awareness through the "field" of the body, we can establish a ground to limit, curtail and discharge the Dukkha of life.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-24 Breathing - The Kamma Of Meditation 49:34
Ajahn Sucitto
Meditation as a way of purifying Kamma - brings clarity, assurance, and good heart in a simple, intimate way.
Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center

2005-04-24 Non-Attachment Is Presence, Not Absence 54:30
Ajahn Sucitto
Non-attachment is not to be confused with avoidance, spacing out, losing connection to what is happening.
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