Classic accounts of pilgrimages on foot to the Buddhist holy places of India, Nepal and Tibet read by Ajahn Sucitto and Nick Scott. Three books: Rude Awakenings, Great Patient One and In My Teacher’s Footsteps, read by the authors as a weekly offering during the COVID times.
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As a monk, I bring a strong commitment, along with the renunciate flavor, to the classic Buddhist teachings. I play with ideas, with humor and a current way of expressing the teachings, but I don't dilute them. Sitting in a field of fifty to eighty people really starts my mind sparking. Since I don't prepare my talks ahead of time, I find myself listening to what I'm saying along with everyone else. This leaves a lot of room for the Dhamma to come up. Just having eighty people listening to m ...
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(Dhamma Stream Online Sessions) Q1 How important is it to maintain continuity of the meditation object? 0857 Q2 I'm confused by the word citta. For a long time I thought it was the physical organ of the heart, but now I understand that it may be mind. Can you help please? 2334 Q3 you talked about adhiṭṭhāna, resolution as being as one way of manife…
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Ajahn Sucitto: GM - The ending of the residues
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(Amaravati Monastery) Bhavana, cultivation, is associated with bringing into being fruitful states and dwelling in them. Without this ground, citta- heart - goes out, focuses on conditioned phenomena. The natural result will be uncertainty, anxiety, fear. Practices for clearing fear at its root are described: contemplation of death, mindfulness of …
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Ajahn Sucitto: The ongoing focus for cultivation is ‘me’
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(Cittaviveka) The compulsive shaping and drives of the citta are held by grasping – an involuntary reflex that can be mastered through careful cultivation. As the end of this grasping and shaping is the sense of self, that sense of ‘me’ ‘I am this’ is the ongoing focus of our Dhamma practice.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto: Dhamma practice shapes the Citta into a more fulfilling state
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(Cittaviveka) The emphasis on virtue, beyond keeping rules, customs and procedures, is to bring about harmony. It enables us to establish a fluent relationship that isn’t domineering nor indifferent, clearing of heart from destructive tendencies. It’s the tonality of careful attention in what we do. Not seeking results, but just bringing forth harm…
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Ajahn Sucitto: Development without Becoming
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(Cittaviveka) Our general mode follows a track called becoming. It’s a track that keeps moving, flavoured with craving that never arrives at satisfaction. The Buddha presented a more natural way – step-by-step, chart the course, with friendliness and purity of intention. Mindfulness of body and contemplative thought (vitaka-vicara) support a wider,…
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Ajahn Sucitto: The flow to liberation: Feeding the Citta
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(Cittaviveka) The flow to liberation isn’t a flash in the pan miracle, but a gradual, step-by-step process. Begin with the 4 establishments of mindfulness. When held carefully, steadily, with patience, the enlightenment factors develop. It can’t be done out of will power. Rather, nourishment for the process are restraint, mindfulness and careful at…
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Ajahn Sucitto: Ethical Responsibility Leads to Concentration and Release
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(Cittaviveka) Liberation is always a step-by-step process. Each stage flows into the next. It’s a natural process, according to Dhamma. Start on the right track, with virtue – relational sensitivity. Acting in this way gives rise to gladness, then concentration, leading to liberation. (Sutta reference AN 10:2)…
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Ajahn Sucitto: The Circular Process: Right View, Right Mindfulness and Right Effort
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(Cittaviveka) Three key factors of the Noble Eightfold Path circle around and support each other: Right View, which scans to see which skilful qualities need to be developed; Right Mindfulness, which sustains attention on this development; and Right Effort, which provides the energy to complete the transformation.…
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Ajahn Sucitto: Right view and intention are the basis for the satipatthāna
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Ajahn Sucitto: Harmony and forgiveness
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(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) Consider the deep learning or openness that has been experienced. What has found its way to the exit? This allows a regaining of the awakened centre.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto: Insight breaks up grasping
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(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) The centre has no name but is harmonious, unsqueezed and released from (often unrecognized) clinging.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto: Re-gaining the centre
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(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) Practice establishes a wholeness, a container where we can settle and witness the suffering, those random, sometimes painful stresses we call “ours”.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto: Training the citta is your best bet
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(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) The teachings are not philosophies, abstract concoctions or attitudes. They point to direct signals of the citta with no position to stand on.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Ajahn Sucitto: Concentration without concentrating
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(Emoyeni Retreat Centre) Ajahn explains how it is that the Buddha didn’t tell us to concentrate, but he did recommend concentration.Av Ajahn Sucitto
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Chapter 10. Inquiring Within
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Map: Tibet Return Extras: Chapter Notes Photos:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8Av Nick Scott
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Map: Dolma La, Lake Manasarovar Extras: Chapter Notes Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20, 21,22,23,24,25Av Nick Scott
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Chapter 8. Facing Difficulty
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Map: Kora Extras: Chapter Notes Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 7. The Spiritual and the Profane
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Map: Western Kingdoms Extras: Chapter Notes Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 6. Dealing with Disappointment
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Map: Western Tibet Extras: Chapter Notes Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 5. Working with Others
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Map: Borders Extras: Chapter Notes Photos:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 4.The Joy of Being on the Path
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Map: Humla Extras: Chapter Notes, Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21Av Nick Scott
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Chapter 3. Honouring One‘s Lineage
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Map: Nepal Extras: Chapter Notes, Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 2. Delight in the Dhamma
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Maps: Morocco, Atlas Mountains Extras: Chapter Notes Photos: 1,2,3,4,5,6, 7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map: Ireland & Britain Extras: Photo, Chapter NotesAv Nick Scott
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In My Teacher‘s Footsteps: Prologue
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Extras: Cover, About the Cover, Chapter Notes,Av Nick Scott
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Chapter 28. Up, Down, Over, and Out
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Map: Kathmandu Valley and North to Tibet Extras: Photos 1,2,3,4,5Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 27. Bringing it all Back Home
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Map: Himalayan Foothills 2 Extra: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 25. Once Upon a Time
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Map: Himalayan Foothills 1 Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 24. Coming up for Light
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Map: Himalayan Foothills 1 Extras: Chapter Notes, Photos: 1,2,3Av Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 23. The First Goodbye
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Map: Uttar Pradesh North Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 22. Action and Stillness
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Map: Uttar Pradesh North Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 21. The Universal Duty
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Map: Uttar Pradesh North Extras: Chapter Notes, PhotoAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 20. The Family Business
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Map: Uttar Pradesh Varanasi Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 19. Like a River Flowing
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Map: Uttar Pradesh South Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 18: A Matter of Survival
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Map: Southern Bihar Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 17. The Forest Tradition
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Map: Southern Bihar Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 16. Saints, Monks, and Sages
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Map: Southern Bihar Extras: Chapter Notes, PhotoAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 14. The Time of Gifts
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Map: Mid-Bihar Extras: Chapter Notes, Photo, BibliographyAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map : Mid-BiharAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map: Mid-Bihar Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Chapter 10: The Treasure House
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Map: Mid-Bihar Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map: River Gandak(Part 2) Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map: River Gandak (Part 2) Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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Map: River Gandak(Part 2) Extras: Chapter NotesAv Ajahn Sucitto & Nick Scott
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