(Madison Insight Meditation Group) As soon as something comes to mind, the impulse is to do something about it. This is just blind. The most important piece is be something first. It shouldn’t take that long, just 10 seconds. Even if being some

Ajahn Sucitto: 22 The Comfort Place Is Here

Jul 22nd, 2018 57m 24s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The end of retreat provides the occasion to experience endings and separation. Check the tendency to rush into the future, the desire to get out of the uncomfortable and move towards the comfort zone. These bo

Ajahn Sucitto: 21 Q&A

Jul 21st, 2018 1h 1m

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Working with sexual energy (0:08); social justice in line with Dhamma (15:20); mindfulness, thinking, speaking & listening (35:03)

Ajahn Sucitto: 19 Careful Thinking to Be Cultivated for Wisdom and Release

Jul 21st, 2018 37m 44s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Used wisely thinking supports liberation. Through wise reflection we begin to understand the views and attitudes that give rise to afflictive thinking. But through patiently resisting acting on these creations

Ajahn Sucitto: 20 Wisdom: Detox for the Heart

Jul 21st, 2018 59m 10s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) One of the roles of wisdom is to continually check the toxic influences and open to what is here naturally. The unconditioned can be found through wise reflection and handling of the uncertain and unresolvable

Ajahn Sucitto: 18 Appropriate Attention: Comfortably Held rather than Witnessed

Jul 20th, 2018 57m 39s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The way we direct and hold attention either regenerates afflictive self-forming tendencies or decreases them. By relaxing attention and taking in qualities that give rise to ease and gladness, the body is more

Ajahn Sucitto: 16 Right Effort: How to Strive without Getting a Hernia

Jul 19th, 2018 55m 13s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The Buddha crossed the floods of ignorance, sensuality and becoming by not halting and not straining. The right effort of finding ground in the body is a means for balancing and moderating energy and effort.

Ajahn Sucitto: 17 Walking Instructions: Staying in Flow

Jul 19th, 2018 4m 20s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) As we walk, we’re moving through the aggregates, through the field of mind as it opens with its senses of urgency, discord, worry. Sustain mobile mindfulness, walking through your psychological and emotional ‘

Ajahn Sucitto: 13 Guided Meditation: Disengaged Awareness

Jul 18th, 2018 39m 52s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) We’re not having an experience, we are an experience. An experience that’s changing, that’s affected. Allowing content to arise and manifest generates spaciousness and eases the sense of self.

Ajahn Sucitto: 15 Q&A: I Don’t Answer Questions I Respond to People

Jul 18th, 2018 1h 8m

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Ajahn Sucitto reflects on questions posed about breathing, how to engage with the felt sense, heedfulness vs mindfulness, metta practice and cultivating an open heart

Ajahn Sucitto: 14 Allowing Innate Intelligence to Arise

Jul 18th, 2018 55m 3s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Two kinds of reflexes occur in the flow of experience: not knowing what to do and knowing what to do. Both are subject to suffering. Recognize that within experience there is an innate intelligence, clarity, r

Ajahn Sucitto: 11 You Don’t Stop Craving, You Stop Believing in It

Jul 17th, 2018 1h 8m

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The mind is a dynamic process with a certain familiarity to it that seems to reiterate and get stuck in wanting and not wanting. Liberation from this begins with not getting involved with, tussling with or pa

Ajahn Sucitto: 12 Guided Meditation: The Felt Sense of the Body

Jul 17th, 2018 21m 31s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Awareness is a centering place. Not pushing away, not taking a position. It’s a reference point. Rest and remain present to the experiences and expressions of the heart.

Ajahn Sucitto: 07 Posture and Breath for Chanting

Jul 16th, 2018 21m 21s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Chanting begins with opening the belly, chest and throat. Posture and relaxation help clear blocked areas so the heart tone of chanting can vibrate and deepen through the body. [9:50 – 21:30 breathing and voic

Ajahn Sucitto: 08 Guided Meditation: Soothing Nervous Energy Through Breathing and Body

Jul 16th, 2018 24m 17s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) A comprehensive guided meditation to bring gentle, full awareness to all of the parts of the body, creating connections across them. In this connected state, body channels can open allowing for energy flow and

Ajahn Sucitto: 09 Don’t Resist the Disorientation Experience

Jul 16th, 2018 53m 1s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) On retreat there can be disorientation – new people, place, restrictions that weren’t there before. Disorientation is a tough medicine, but we use it to meet the boundary of the habitual self with its instinct

Ajahn Sucitto: 10 Discerning Your Way Through Systems

Jul 16th, 2018 13m 33s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) One of the fundamental obstacles for unawakened beings is the attachment to systems and customs. Rather than a habit of a system or technique in meditation, rely on organic human intelligence. Discern what is

Ajahn Sucitto: 06 Using Thought for Recollection

Jul 15th, 2018 38m 20s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Dhamma practice is generally marked by a tangle of thoughts. But thought can be used for recollection. Taking words into the heart, we consider what has meaning, what serves as refuge, setting distractions asi

Ajahn Sucitto: 04 Walking Instructions: Can You Move without a “There”?

Jul 15th, 2018 7m 36s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Our walking is generally to get “there,” which carries with it a certain quality of distress. Instead, try walking without a “there”. Check the mental constructions of destination- including a ‘spiritual’ one

Ajahn Sucitto: 03 Standing Meditation: The Body Seeks Harmony

Jul 15th, 2018 28m 50s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Guidance to help the body come into natural harmony. Notice the effects ground, space and breathing in the body. When the body feels safe, the skin boundary loosens and armor comes off.

Ajahn Sucitto: 02 Clearing Toxins of the Heart Through Body

Jul 15th, 2018 1h

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) The heart and mind are susceptible to toxins that drive action and infect intention. In the body we find a trustworthy orientation – a reliable source for knowing how it is now.

Ajahn Sucitto: 05 Guided Meditation: Where Do I Find Meaning?

Jul 15th, 2018 32m 43s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) Take a simple word or theme and bring it into the heart. Holding it, sensing it and asking what’s most meaningful? When you take the word into your heart, what happens?

Ajahn Sucitto: 01 Precepts: Something You Can Always Do

Jul 14th, 2018 15m 35s

(Madison Insight Meditation Group) You can’t always “do” pleasant mindstates or an easeful body. Precepts are always available to enact as a way of practice.

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