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 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.
The Method of the Buddha’s Awakening
Ajahn Sucitto
The Buddha’s Awakening and release came through firm intent, and through rigorous inquiry into the roots of mental behaviour: something we can all practise.
Managing the Energetic Basis of Consciousness
Ajahn Sucitto
Everything we experience is felt – it causes a movement of nervous energy. This stimulates consciousness and stirs the heart (citta). By managing and stopping consciousness, citta is purified and released.