Category: Winter Retreat Talks
Everyone likes letting go
Ajahn Sucitto
Group practice morning reflection day 2
Aspiration_ the rising of the heart
Ajahn Sucitto
Group practice morning reflection day 1.
The Power of the Mind and Heart’s Movements
Ajahn Ahimsako
Lunar Observance Day Dhamma Talk
Fine-tuned Metta
Ajahn Cittapala
Careful Energy
Ajahn Ahimsako
Lunar Observance Day Dhamma Talk
The Tiger’s Challenge: Impeccability and Aspiration
Ajahn Sucitto
The one thing we can train in and recollect is that we can aspire. No other creature aspires. We are born with desire, and if we don’t use it for aspiration it leaks out into sensuality and thinking. Then the mind loses its alertness. One of the most fundamental things we aspire to is a different alignment. Finding a place to stand which is true, empowering, dignified, blameless – a refuge. This is how you stand apart from the worldly currents, and live in the quality of good intent.
Liberation is a careful, everyday, process
Ajahn Sucitto
Winter Retreat – Morning Reflection, 12 Jan 2022
Of all the things to be sensitive about, the most urgent and important, is to know how you’re activated and to calm the citta saṇkhāra. We get morphed by what we plug into, so unplug and let go of the unskillful, and plug into what’s necessary for calming and steadying. It takes time
Wisdom – The Intelligence that Leads to Stillness
Ajahn Sucitto
Winter Retreat – Morning Reflection, 11 Jan 2022
The cultivation of wisdom is not just a matter of intellectually knowing something, it’s a practice of handling, and staying in touch with what’s felt. Steadying citta so it can come out of its fixed gripped state, there’s a turning towards dispassion and right response. Stay in touch with the process, and see where it goes – that’s how you learn.