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Devotion arises as a heart-energy that’s distinct from the tyrant will; so it gives you a feel for what ‘right’ effort is – not a strain, but a joyful opening of citta as heart within a domain that is timeless and selfless. It takes some effort to attune to the right view of the interconnected cosmos, but once you do, living in accord with its golden rule – ‘to others as to myself’ - becomes a natural felt sense. It is respectful rather than conformist; and it opens in sympathy and goodwill to the living forms that arise in one’s awareness (as self or other). Rather than rules and laws, this is the virtue (sila) that acts as the foundation for mindfulness and the enlightenment faculties:
When your virtue is well purified and your view straight, based upon virtue, established upon virtue, you should develop the four establishments of mindfulness ….’ (S.47:3)
So too, bhikkhus, based upon virtue, established upon virtue, a bhikkhu develops and cultivates the seven factors of enlightenment, and thereby he achieves greatness and expansiveness in wholesome states. (S.46.1)
Ajahn Sucitto
Recorded Teachings
Stillness In Movement - Walking Meditation (22:07) Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, UK; 24 Jan 2008
Within the movement of walking, the mind becomes still. There is a lovely quality of movement and stillness. That’s where a centre that begins to occur, a centre of awareness. Not held through fixation or obsession, it arises with the factor of ease, factor of repeated process, just going through it again and again, and clearing out the obstacles.
Mind’s Nature Is to Be Happy (62:55) Wongsanit Ashram, Thailand; 10 Dec 2019
We live in the sense world, but we don’t have to run out into it. We can see, hear and touch, but keep the heart collected inwardly. This gives a sense of balance and peace, an inner happiness.
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