Guided Meditations are usually Live streamed on YouTube every Sunday at 7.30 PM.
Recollecting the Buddha
Ajahn Maha Fookij
Ajahn Maha Fookij invites us to recollect the Buddha on Vesakha Puja, the day the Buddhist world celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing away.
Light on Path
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our ‘Dhamma home’. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.
Dhamma Transmission is based on mutual openness
Ajahn Sucitto
The Channa Sutta (S.22:90) shows how Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed – despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
Light on knowing
Ajahn Sucitto
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Light on concentration
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi is generally translated as ‘concentration’ but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Light on desire
Ajahn Sucitto
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Light on effort an oar in the stream
Ajahn Sucitto
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Feel Truth Avoid Plastic
Ajahn Sucitto
Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!
Light on Balance
Ajahn Sucitto
This teaching uses the metaphor of a keel of a boat, that which gives balance in open ocean waters, to point to how to handle conditionality. Finding that balance between what we restrain from (varita) and what we do (charita); between internal and external. The heart already knows this balance, if we can just shine a light on it.