During a brief visit to Cittaviveka, Luang Por Pasanno recounts a meeting he had many years past with Ajahn Buddhadasa in Thailand. Luang Por draws on this encounter and his own experiences to show how the floods of greed, hatred and delusion can be skilfully met and transformed through the power of selflessness and gratitude.
Tan Anejo speaks on the Buddha’s gradual training, in which the Buddha stressed the qualities of sincerity, honesty and a willingness for one to learn and to be trained.
Death contemplation is known as an easy way to get into deep meditation, but because death is a socially avoided theme in the West, we only use a light and soft approach to this kind of special meditation.
The real business of our life is on making Dhamma qualities of kalyāṇa-mitta and the brahmavihārās manifest in the world. These abiding places, of goodwill, compassion, appreciation, and serenity are our valid and healthy ‘vihara.’