Month: February 2022

The Tiger’s Challenge: Impeccability and Aspiration

Chithurst Buddhist Monastery

Ajahn Sucitto

The one thing we can train in and recollect is that we can aspire. No other creature aspires. We are born with desire, and if we don’t use it for aspiration it leaks out into sensuality and thinking. Then the mind loses its alertness. One of the most fundamental things we aspire to is a different alignment. Finding a place to stand which is true, empowering, dignified, blameless – a refuge. This is how you stand apart from the worldly currents, and live in the quality of good intent.

Pali Sounds 3 – Review and Practice

Chithurst Buddhist Monastery

Ajahn Sucitto

In a series of four workshops during Winter Retreat 2022, Ajahn Sucitto provides the technical and energetic background to the production of sound as a way of deliberate gathering and sending forth of energy through chanting.

Part 3: Noticing and reclaiming Pali phoneme differences from English and Thai; the effect of English and Thai language particularities; rhythm and consonant length

Pali Sounds 4 – Puja

Chithurst Buddhist Monastery

Ajahn Sucitto

In a series of four workshops during Winter Retreat 2022, Ajahn Sucitto provides the technical and energetic background to the production of sound as a way of deliberate gathering and sending forth of energy through chanting.

Part 4: Honouring and offering creates the atmosphere; recalling the purpose of the event/ the moment; using the significance of the location and time; cultivating aspiration