Recent Cittaviveka audio talks and videos can be found on our YouTube channel. Guided Meditations are usually live streamed on YouTube every Sunday at 7.30 PM.
Category: Audio Talks
Recollecting the Buddha
Ajahn Maha Fookij
Ajahn Maha Fookij invites us to recollect the Buddha on Vesakha Puja, the day the Buddhist world celebrates the Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and passing away.
Light on Path
Ajahn Sucitto
Cultivate what brings joy, and is immediately accessible. These bring us to our ‘Dhamma home’. Here is an unbinding, a subsiding of the complexities of the mind that allows the factors of the Path of Awakening to arise and guide us.
Dhamma Transmission is based on mutual openness
Ajahn Sucitto
The Channa Sutta (S.22:90) shows how Bhikkhu Channa receives Dhamma through being open and welcomed – despite his bad reputation. The teaching he receives from Ven. Ananda points to the openness beyond affirmation or denial of conditioned existence. This instructs us to handle our intentions, interpretations and perspectives carefully without fixation.
Light on knowing
Ajahn Sucitto
What is the knowing? It’s not the phenomena, not the mood, not the mind. It’s a basic openness that helps one get less impacted by the pleasant and unpleasant. Recognize the aggregates and how they are activated, then stay with the knowing where is no establishment, no activation. This knowing makes way for discernment to arise.
Light on concentration
Ajahn Sucitto
Samadhi is generally translated as ‘concentration’ but it is based on one-pointedness of purpose, rather than on focusing on a point in the body. As a factor of the Path, concentration represents the gathering of uplifting qualities and the removal of hindrances that block wisdom.
Light on desire
Ajahn Sucitto
This is a desire realm – we have desire. We’re not trying to eliminate it, but train it. Where it goes wrong is where desire becomes craving, when it’s shrouded by ignorance. I don’t create craving, craving creates me. Take the me out of it, and there’s the possibility to view things differently. Moments, thoughts, objects, so intensely configured, begin to lose their hard edges. There is a stilling, a chance to clear one’s residues.
Light on effort: an oar in the stream
Ajahn Sucitto
With effort, citta is the main thing. It’s both the heart quality from where intention streams and that which harvests the results. Then one knows where to best apply energy and how that’s done. Practise the application of effort to mindfulness of breathing, acknowledging and moderating the tools being used and the material they’re being applied to. When you practise rightly, there will be fortunate results.
Feel Truth, Avoid Plastic
Ajahn Sucitto
Whether one’s context is of a meditative community, or a natural world, or of mainstream society, one’s world is based on perceptions. To get perspective on this, bodily presence is basic. It opens an awareness before the mind gets going, and before the world of circumstance. Learn to filter the shocking ‘world’ of the media.. Sustain perceptions of the bright and worthy- and live in accord. Don’t go automatic!