Ajahn Karuniko
Ajahn Karuniko describes how his spiritual development began with karate training. He urges us to look after the basics, beginning with mindfulness of the body.
Talks with Selected Dhamma Topics
In My Teacher’s Footsteps
with Nick Scott
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/
เส้นทางภาวนา
Meditation – An Outline by Ajahn Sucitto
คู่มือที่ท่านถืออยู่นี้ จะพาท่านเดินทางไกล
กลับไปสู่กายใจของตนเองตามวิถีทางของพระพุทธองค์
ไม่ว่าท่านจะนับถือศาสนาใดก็ตาม
เมื่อใดที่ท่านเริ่มหันมาใส่ใจต่อสิ่งต่าง ๆ ที่กำลังผุดขึ้นกลางใจ
และใช้แนวทางจากหนังสือเล่มนี้พาใจของท่านมาสู่ความตื่นรู้
ออกจากความหลงหรือความทุกข์
และไปเข้าใจเหตุที่ก่อให้เกิดความทุกข์
ในใจของท่าน เมื่อนั้นท่านจะเกิดความสว่างขึ้นกลางใจ
จนจิตพบความสงบ และสันติ
Guided Meditation: Staying Present with Experience.
Ajahn Sucitto
There are 2 qualities of citta: it is affected and it is knowing, aware. With cultivation, awareness can become much more apparent and encompassing while the affective sense can steady, calm and subside into something still. The process is to go through the body. As the body eases, citta settles and collects into itself – samādhi. Happy, easeful, refreshed.
Sweeping the Body
Ajahn Sucitto
Something in us – citta – searches for release from suffering. It struggles to rise out of old patterns, which means one has to enter them. Sweeping meditation is a skillful means. It’s not just a physical exercise but an opportunity to clear kamma.
Practising with Ground, Space and Rhythm
Ajahn Sucitto
Contact with the world causes the Citta to lose its sense of ground, space and rhythm. Use of body is recommended as a meditation theme.