Can you take 10-15 minutes to refresh your heart and mind?
What’s offered here may help you with …
• Calming and steadying the mind.
• Restoring emotional balance.
• Understanding where compulsive habits begin and supporting a reset.
• Discovering inner depths.
In so far as mindfulness is to be established and sustained, there is a doing, but samādhi is not a concentration that you do, it is a unified state that you enter. It’s a place from where you can review and reset your attitudes and deepen your understanding. And its determining factor is that the heart is happy in itself.
Could meditation be about living in an authentic and balanced way? And, as a guide to that way of experiencing ourselves, what could be more natural than walking …? This book teases out the details of how the Buddha taught walking as a means to find peace and stability in our lives, literally a step at a time.
Standing was one of the positions that the Buddha recommended as a proper basis for mindfulness. Wisely cultivated, it takes strain out of the body, encourages balance and inner stability – and is a support for full liberation. In this guide, Ajahn Sucitto adds practical details to the establishment and development of this practice. It is for beginners and experienced meditators alike.
In this book, Ajahn Sucitto guides the reader through the classical exposition of mindfulness of breathing – but with an emphasis on following the breath-energy rather than the sensations. The result is a light and refreshing stability that offers well-being and clear insight.
In diesem Buch untersucht Ajahn Sucitto Buddhas systematische Darstellung der Achtsamkeit beim Atmen als eine Übung, die Stress aus Körper, Herz und Geist löst und zum Frieden des Erwachens führt.
The Inner tyrant is a nagging voice that demands you achieve perfection, never offers congratulation. It cuts off access to the natural empathy of the heart
Listen to Audiobook, now available, click on play below.
Audiobook Read by Deanna Burkett
Over this winter Nick Scott will be reading In My Teacher’s Footsteps, the account of how Ajahn Amaro, he and four others followed Ajahn Sumedho to Mount Kailash in Tibet.
No pilgrimage is harder or more ancient than the journey up and over the Himalayan defile to circle Mount Kailash in Tibet. Ajahn Sumedho wanted to do it as a young American in 1950’s California, but only got the opportunity when he was a famous Buddhist monk, aged 60. Nick Scott trained him in European mountains and here recounts his teacher’s attempts, the dire results, and Nick’s own subsequent pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain, with Ajahn Amaro, which nearly killed him. This is a book about adversity, how to face it and what can be gained. But it’s more than that. It’s about the whole journey: life and how to use it, and its difficulties, to find freedom from suffering.
You can start listening here: https://whereareyougoing.podbean.com/
Meditation – An Outline by Ajahn Sucitto
คู่มือที่ท่านถืออยู่นี้ จะพาท่านเดินทางไกล
กลับไปสู่กายใจของตนเองตามวิถีทางของพระพุทธองค์
ไม่ว่าท่านจะนับถือศาสนาใดก็ตาม
เมื่อใดที่ท่านเริ่มหันมาใส่ใจต่อสิ่งต่าง ๆ ที่กำลังผุดขึ้นกลางใจ
และใช้แนวทางจากหนังสือเล่มนี้พาใจของท่านมาสู่ความตื่นรู้
ออกจากความหลงหรือความทุกข์
และไปเข้าใจเหตุที่ก่อให้เกิดความทุกข์
ในใจของท่าน เมื่อนั้นท่านจะเกิดความสว่างขึ้นกลางใจ
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