{"podcast":{"title":"Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction","slug":"dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215","podcast_index_feed_id":435215,"rss_url":"https://dharmaseed.org/feeds/recordings/","website_url":"https://dharmaseed.org","image_url":"https://media.dharmaseed.org/images/DS-rss-logo.jpg","author":"Dharma Seed","episode_count":144,"summary":"Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T08:20:23.150464+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215"},"episode":{"title":"Ajahn Sucitto: Q&A","slug":"ajahn-sucitto-q-a","published_at":"2026-06-27T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/ajahn-sucitto-q-a","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215","url":"https://dharmaseed.org/talks/98079/","audio_url":"https://dharmaseed.org//talks/98079/20260627-Ajahn_Sucitto--q_a-98079.mp3?rss=","summary":"(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) 0:53 Q1 I'm very impulsive and I find that smoking grounds me. I'd like to quit but it's not the proper time or the moment. Do you have any suggestions? 07:29 Q2 I have a question about recognizing not self, anatta. It's difficult to maintain this perspective over a longer period of time. I feel quite content but my personality keeps popping up and I struggle with egg handling me anxiety of aging and losing my job. How can I handle living in the real world? 18:40 Q3 Some questions on measureless States: a) I was attending a retreat with Ayye Anandabodhi what arose was a sense of gratitude. Is gratitude a prerequisite for cultivating the brahmaviharas? b) A local sangha leader often mentions \"it's like this now'. Sometimes I find this just frustrating. Can you say something about this? c) 27:29 Q4 Sometime ago you talked about the fruition of karuna / compassion as boundless space, muditha/sympathetic joy as boundless consciousness and upekkha / equanimity as no-thing-ness. Can you speak more about this? 33:17 Q5 Resignation and acceptance. I can only accept my life situation at this moment is to resign myself to the circumstances. I experience a lot of direct and indirect rejection but feel sorry and defeated. 44:12 Q6 I'm 54 and I'm feeling in a kind of bardo, an in-between space in my life. My question is not about ambition but how do I want to spend the rest of my life. What can you advise?","meta_description":"(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) 0:53 Q1 I'm very impulsive and I find that smoking grounds me. I'd like to quit but it's not the proper time or the moment…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3031,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/episodes/ajahn-sucitto-q-a/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-435215/ajahn-sucitto-q-a.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}