On the opening day of Cittaviveka’s Group Practice Week, Ajahn Ahimsako urges the resident community to maximize the precious opportunity that is available. He warns that merely developing a sense of peacefulness, while pleasant and desirable, is not sufficient, and that this calm state of mind should be used as a foundation for investigation into Dhamma and the discernment of wisdom.
Ajahn Ahimsako speaks on his own personal mode of practising with the traditional monastic chanting, and offers encouragement in putting forth effort to use the classical Canonical teachings found in these chants for reflection. Using the example of the chant on the Noble Eightfold Path, he walks through the eight factors, and shows how this teaching can become accessible and more easily brought into consciousness in our day to day lives.