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.
Category: Rains Retreat Talks
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.
Seeing through the Flow of the Asavas
Ajahn Ahimsako
Mindfulness of Death
Ajahn Kaccana
Ajahn Kaccana reflects on the charnel ground contemplations as a way to develop detachment from the body, and points out the value of maranasati in a culture that is uncomfortable with the examination of death.
The Builder of This House
Ajahn Cittapala
Ajahn Cittapala likens meditation to sawing a log, and explains how difficulties can arise if one’s attention is too rigid. By maintaining a wider awareness, she shows how the process of becoming is seen for what it is, and not mistaken to be a house building self.
To Face the Dukkha of Life
Ajahn Karuniko
Ajahn Karuniko warns of the dangers in leading a life of sensuality and lays out the foundation of mindfulness based in the body as a way to develop healthier habit patterns and freedom from dukkha.
The Endlessness of Suffering
Ajahn Karunadhammo
Ajahn Karunadhammo recalls the First and Second Watches of the night of the Buddha’s enlightenment, in which the Buddha saw his own endless wanderings through samsara, and other beings’ arising and passing through various states of woe. He then describes the Buddha’s enlightenment in the Third Watch, in which the Buddha realized The Four Noble Truths, and the practice of mindfulness immersed in the body as a way to liberation.
A Sense of Urgency
Ajahn Ahimsako
On the opening day of Cittaviveka’s Group Practice Week, Ajahn Ahimsako urges the resident community to maximize the precious opportunity that is available. He warns that merely developing a sense of peacefulness, while pleasant and desirable, is not sufficient, and that this calm state of mind should be used as a foundation for investigation into Dhamma and the discernment of wisdom.