Dhamma Tracks

Aug 22, 2025

That we get old, sicken and die may seem like a basic fact rather than an occasion for learning. But it’s what years of practice prepare us for. That, as there’s no safe place in the world of me and it and pushing and pulling, we’d better take refuge somewhere else. Check it out. Is the space of my awareness free from intrusion and free from obstruction? Check for anxiety, or craving or holding on. If there can be a letting go of compulsions and a settling in to embodied steady-state, we can be safe from hindrances. There can arise sense of fundamental welcome. That sense has nothing to fear and much to feel blessed by.

Thank you age; with such a teacher, unless one wants the spirit to stiffen and die, one just has to get wise.

Ajahn Sucitto

Recorded Teachings

Guided Meditation-Soften & Widen (43:58) Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, UK; 1 Aug 2010

Faith, the unconditioned and the way past grasping (49:31) Cittaviveka Buddhist Monastery, UK; 22 Oct 2023
Finding a place to begin can’t come from history. Intuitive faith / saddha is useful to distinguish the mundane from the place where truth, the unconditioned, can be revealed.