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Venerable Ajahn Sucitto

 

Dhamma Talks for download:

Coming out of Auto-Destruction
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Prejudices and Biases
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The Manner is the Meaning
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Aspects of Right Effort
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A Home, Rhythm and Heart
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Caring for Energy
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Concentration as a Return to Centre
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- uploaded 07.04.2008

Deepening into Impermanence
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Nudging the Spirit
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- uploaded 04.03.2008

Return to the Mind Itself
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- uploaded 04.03.2008

A Holiday at Home - Knowing Meets Self
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- uploaded 05.02.2008

Clearing Hindrances
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- uploaded 05.02.2008

Dhamma - Your Basic Field
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- uploaded 05.02.2008

Faith the Final Frontier
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- uploaded 10.01.2008

Falling Awake
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- uploaded 10.01.2008

The Gift
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- uploaded 10.01.2008

The End of Programs
(8.06Mb mp3)
- uploaded 10.101.2008

Kamma & the End of Kamma

          Awakening a Feminine Paradigm
          (23Mb mp3)
- uploaded 14.12.2007

          Kamma and the end of Kamma
          (12Mb mp3)
- uploaded 14.12.2007

          Kamma of Meditation
          (20Mb mp3) - uploaded 14.12.2007

          Map for Awakening
          (16Mb mp3) - uploaded 14.12.2007

The Mind & The World
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- uploaded 10.11.2007

Be With It - Not in It
(10Mb mp3)
- uploaded 10.11.2007

Meeting Life With Awareness
(9Mb mp3)
- uploaded 10.11.2007

Absolute Honesty - Grasping Self and Personhood
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- uploaded 6.10.2007

Beautiful in the Beginning Middle and End
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- uploaded 6.10.2007

Purifying Intent
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- uploaded 6.10.2007

Getting Past the Point
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- uploaded 6.10.2007

Great Heart - The Saboteur
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- uploaded 5.9.2007

The Person and the Undefinable
(28Mb mp3)
- uploaded 5.9.2007

The Precious Flaw
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- uploaded 5.9.2007

The Whole Person - Integrating Bodily Emotional Rational Patterns
(26Mb mp3)
- uploaded 5.9.2007

The Thread of Letting Go
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- uploaded 2.8.2007

Resonating with Suchness
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- uploaded 2.8.2007

Hindrances and Entering the Place of Presence
(27Mb mp3)
- uploaded 2.8.2007

Connecting Body to Mind in Terms of Energy
(21Mb mp3)
- uploaded 8.7.2007

Death and Dying
(10Mb mp3)
- uploaded 8.7.2007

Steadying Presence - Breathing Where You Are
(22Mb mp3)
- uploaded 8.7.2007

Enjoying Dhamma - The Program that Ends Programs
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- uploaded 3.6.2007

Entering Dhamma - A Natural Process
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- uploaded 3.6.2007

Release from Self-View
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- uploaded 6.5.2007

Renunciation - The Return to Balance
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- uploaded 6.5.2007

The Community of Value
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- uploaded 6.5.2007

Alignment of Body Thought and Mind
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- uploaded 13.4.2007

Faith
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- uploaded 13.4.2007

Modes of Attention - The Four Noble Truths
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- uploaded 13.4.2007

Spiritual Friendship
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- uploaded 9.12.2006

Bearing Presence with Ourselves
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- uploaded 15.9.2006

Glorious Failure
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- uploaded 4.8.2006

Selfless Persons (Asalha Puja)
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- uploaded 4.8.2006

Rewiring the Energetic System
(14Mb mp3)
- uploaded 9.6.2006

Opening, Suffusing, Releasing
(14Mb mp3)
- uploaded 9.5.2006

Consciousness & Its Implications
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- uploaded 8.3.2006

Restraint - The Doorway to Freedom
(11Mb mp3)
- uploaded 8.3.2006

Investigating Bases of Mind
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- uploaded 6.2.2006

The Freedom to Choose
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- uploaded 6.2.2006

Entering Emptiness via Perception I.
(15Mb mp3)
- uploaded 3.1.2006

Cultivating Calm and Insight
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- uploaded 3.1.2006

Kathina Talk
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- uploaded 13.12.2005

Handling the Demon
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- uploaded 13.12.2005

Descent Through the Hindrances
(28Mb mp3)
- uploaded 6.11.2005

Finding Ones Ground:  Pragmatic Metta
(31Mb mp3)
- uploaded 6.11.2005

Vitakka & Vicara
(18Mb mp3)
- uploaded 6.11.2005

No End in Sight!
(30Mb mp3)
- uploaded 6.10.2005

The Eight Worldly Winds
(26Mb mp3)
- uploaded 6.10.2005

Holding Attention on Impermanence
(17Mb mp3)
- uploaded 17.9.2005

Waking Up with the Hangover of Life
(21Mb mp3)
- uploaded 30.7.2005

Compassion for Kamma
(11Mb mp3)
- uploaded 17.6.2005

Right Effort
(11Mb mp3)
- uploaded 31.3.2005

Reflections on the Hindrances
(7Mb mp3) - uploaded 31.3.2005

 

Biography

Ajahn Sucitto was born in London in 1949, but moved to the small town of Dunstable in his teens. His first encounter with Buddhism came through an interest in Japanese literature while at grammar school, but he found nothing to follow it up in his local town. The continuing interest in literature carried him through a B.A. in English and American Literature at Warwick University in 1971. After that, the search for a meaningful direction in life eventually attracted him to take an overland trip through the East, heading for Australia. Following a period in India, he went to Thailand in 1975, where he happened across a class in Buddhist meditation in Chiang Mai. After a few days' practice, he decided to make a tentative commitment to the Holy Life.

 

 

He spent three years in Thailand, mostly at Wat Kiriwong in Nakhon Sawan. During a short sojourn in Chiang Mai, however, he met Ajahn Sumedho, before the latter left for England. When Ajahn Sucitto himself returned to England in 1978 to visit his family, he met Ajahn Sumedho again at the Hampstead Vihara, and decided to stay and train with him. During the years he lived for the most part with Ajahn Sumedho, and was responsible for editing and publishing his talks, as well as other Sangha publications.

Ajahn Sucitto was one of the original group of who founded Chithurst Monastery Cittaviveka in 1979. He also helped to establish a vihara in Northumberland, Aruna Ratanagiri on 1981. In 1984 he was part of the community that moved from Chithurst to Hertfordshire to start Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, where had the responsibility of supervising the nuns training, as well as other teaching duties. During this time he also began teaching overseas. In 1992 he was asked to take over the function of senior incumbent at Chithurst Monastery where he now resides.


Publications include:
Introduction to Insight Meditation (a beginners guide)
The Dawn of the Dhamma (an illustrated commentary on the Buddha's first discourse)
Kalyana (a small collection of edited talks)

 

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