Suttas, Parittas and Funeral Chanting in Pali and English.
Month: January 2025
Chanting Volume 1 – Morning and Evening Puja (updated)
Morning and evening chanting and reflections in Pali and English.
Return To and Strengthen the Heart
Ajahn Sucitto
Aim to clarify, and strengthen the heart. This is through gathering energy in the heart – that is ‘samadhi’ (concentration). Letting go in the flood of life requires this strength and the relinquishment that support, and are supported by, samadhi. In the presence of a balanced and strengthened citta, we see and respond to the irritations of life in a full-hearted way; The aggregates are cooled. (refers to M64 and S47.42)
Entering the Undifferentiated
Ajahn Sucitto
Progressive cultivation of mindfulness to maintain presence through the range of states, so that one allows then to pass. Attention is less snagged on different qualities. It opens to simple awareness. Familiar reactions, and with them, identification,subside. Undifferentiated awareness remains. (refers to S.47:42)
Wisdom Around Effort: Which Mountain and How to Climb
Ajahn Sucitto
Practice is about fostering growth based on wisdom, effort and view. Wisdom is conditioned by a faith that leads on to motivation/desire, energy, heart and discriminative attention (iddhipada). Effort should be wisely moderated – to sustain, restrain, persevere, uplift, calm. Application of citta is fundamental to the Path; but make it relevant to uplifting the heart.
The Welcome Vihara
Ajahn Sucitto
Basis of healthy human life is goodwill. Our practice is to welcome, to allow and encompass differences. Speech and action based on Dhamma values establishes skilful common ground. We contemplate the effects of deluded reactions and release them – and the citta dwells in a beautiful place and grows beyond self towards measurelessness.
Faith View and Abandonment
Ajahn Sucitto
Messages arise from the citta/heart: world-weariness and a sense of resolve. One begins to withdraw from the input of sense-consciousness and attune to what the citta values: ethics, goodwill and skilful states. So there is a recognition of citta/heart, an intelligence that can reflect upon and moderate consciousness, and moves towards devotion and self-abandonment.(refers to A.10:58)
Collecting Settling and Resting Immersed in Body
Ajahn Sucitto
To begin the three months’ monastic retreat the community is encouraged to cultivate restraint so that energy can be drawn away from sense- contact and into the heart.