Guided Meditations are usually Live streamed on YouTube every Sunday at 7.30 PM.
Chanting, Volume 2 – Suttas (updated)
Suttas, Parittas and Funeral Chanting in Pali and English.
Chanting Volume 1 – Morning and Evening Puja (updated)
Morning and evening chanting and reflections in Pali and English.
The Buddha’s First Sermon and the Way Out of Suffering
Ajahn Ahimsako
On the occasion of Asalha Puja, Ajahn Ahimsako discusses the Buddha’s first sermon, the
Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta (SN 56.11), the Discourse on Setting in Motion the Wheel of Dhamma. He points out that while physical and emotional pain is inevitable in life, mental suffering is completely optional, and it is up to each of one us to apply the Buddha’s teaching on the Four Noble Truths and to find our way to freedom.
Contact and Feeling as Pivots towards Freedom
Ajahn Ahimsako
After the Cittaviveka community’s chanting of the Fire Sermon (SN 35.28), Ajahn Ahimsako investigates the stages in the cycle of Dependent Origination. He explains how the factor of contact can only occur in dependence on its three constituent elements, and asks if we can experience the subsequent factor of feeling with awareness, instead of being drawn into grasping and the fires of greed, hatred and delusion.
The Space that Connects Us
Ajahn Sucitto
Reflections on the busyness of life, and the space that can arise when conditioned activities finish, and identifications and responsibilities can be let go. When the outward form is dropped, a Dhamma structure can be found, which is more present and can do the vitally important work of taming the heart.
With Little Dust in Their Eyes
Luang Por Sudhiro
Luang Por Sudhiro, abbot of Wat Pah Kanjanabhisek in Khon Kaen, Thailand, offers reflections on the life of the Buddha during a short but auspicious visit to Chithurst. He details the Buddha-to-be’s renunciation of his comfortable lifestyle for one of asceticism, abandoning this when he remembered an experience of peace he experienced in childhood, and finally deciding to teach the way to enlightenment to those with little dust in their eyes.
Be a Light Unto Yourself
Ajahn Siripañño
Ajahn Siripannyo, abbot of Wat Dtao Dtum in Thailand, during a rare and auspicious visit to Cittaviveka, offers his thoughts on the many benefits and joys of living a monastic life. On the eve of the annual Kathina festival, he points out the harmony that is created during the sewing of the robe, and explains how it is the smaller rituals that bind together the larger tradition, establishing a conduit for goodness.
Afflicted in Body, Peaceful in Mind
Ajahn Cittapala
Ajahn Cittapala reflects on SN 22.1, the Nakulapita Sutta, explaining how an aging, afflicted body does not have to mean an afflicted, suffering mind. She shows how the not self nature of the body means that we can let go of identification with it, and hence be free of sorrow and suffering.
Introduction to Insight Meditation
Ajahn Sucitto
Can you take 10-15 minutes to refresh your heart and mind?
What’s offered here may help you with …
• Calming and steadying the mind.
• Restoring emotional balance.
• Understanding where compulsive habits begin and supporting a reset.
• Discovering inner depths.