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.
Returning to Chithurst after an interval of 40 years, Luang Por Piak, one of Luang Por Chah’s most revered and well known disciples, recalls an encounter with a ghost during his previous visit, and remarks on how much Chithurst has developed into a forest monastery conducive to states of concentration and tranquillity. He stresses that this concentration must be used as a tool for attaining insight, and details the five traditional objects of meditation traditionally given to new monastics: hair of the head, hair of the body, teeth, nails and skin.
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Translation by Ajahn Moshe:
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.
Effort: taking an overview, we can recognize the first effort is to generate right view, to note the conditionalities in which we find ourselves. We see which ones lead to stress, and which allow it to cease.
Finding a place to begin can’t come from history. Intuitive faith and saddha are useful to distinguish the mundane from the place where truth, the unconditioned, can be revealed.
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.