Dhamma Tracks

May 02, 2025

Putting aside the topics and the energies associated with owning, planning and regretting is an essential part of meditation practice. It’s not that such topics are morally wrong, but if they bring an agitated, hasty energy with them, or if they stimulate fault-finding and anxiety, heart and mind aren’t going to settle. If you find a topic can’t be put aside, you should investigate more deeply the effect it has on you, and consider how to breathe calm energy into that state. Concentration and singleness of heart come about through filtering and pruning mental content and approach, not through focusing on a point in the body.

Ajahn Sucitto

Recorded Teachings

Guided Meditation – Subtleties of Breathing (22:17) Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, USA; 14 Aug 2021
Supporting the heart with embodiment, with steady ground and safe space, allow breathing to happen naturally. Releasing what’s not needed, the subtle shielding around the body, open to what’s around with goodwill and love. Whatever arises, breathing it in, breathing it out.

Learning to Cultivate Relationship (61:41) IMS Forest Refuge, USA; 15 Nov 2018
We can learn to relate to the conditioned world with a sense of knowing it doesn’t work, dealing with the inevitable clashes and frictions with a mind that is spacious, that can digest the chafing. Nourish and strengthen citta through qualities of goodwill, patience and acceptance to facilitate disengagement. Then the heart is not troubled by things not going its way.