Ajahn Sucitto
Our ability to contemplate provides enormous potential to get perspective on the changingness of the forms that characterise experience.
Author: Chithurst Buddhist Monastery
View from the Heart Brings Right Purpose
Ajahn Sucitto
The heart that realizes through hearing the Four Noble Truths opens to Right View. This results in Right Intention/Right Purpose: away from greed, cruelty and harming.
Sweetness, Danger and Escape with Regard to the Khandha
Ajahn Sucitto
Realization – Existence is a Wave
Ajahn Sucitto
The realization experience of the Buddha’s disciples was of experience void of person, but consisting of wave-forms called the five aggregates. Liberation begins with this comprehension – and the subsequent calming and inquiry into these aggregates.
The Importance of Space and Connection
Ajahn Sucitto
The value of rest and decompression is explored, noting that conditioning forces, while useful, can become compulsive. Concepts of nama (designations) and the necessity of lifting off fixed duties to reconnect with a more animate experience are discussed. The balance between discipline and playfulness, the role of integrity, and the importance of warm-heartedness in community, and Luang Por’s personal anecdotes from monastery life, illustrating a need for adaptability and the integration of structured and spontaneous practices are offered.
Stepping into uncertainty – A Tudong in Sweden
Tan Anejo
Stories and Dhamma reflections after a tudong which had many interesting meetings, challenges and an unplanned ending by a Swedish monk in his country of origin.
The Happiness of Not Having to Be Happy
Ajahn Ahimsako
The Four Postures are Four Buddhas
Ajahn Sucitto
To internalize Buddha, we can direct mindfulness to each of the four bodily postures. Through these they will guide our psychologies to balance and steadiness in the midst of conditions.
Guided Meditation – A Frame for Purification
Ajahn Sucitto
By holding to the frame of the body, we allow its somatic presence to unfold. This also serves to undo the heart’s contractions – such as ill-will and craving.