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...Something seeks stimulation – there’s a desire to get something that’s more stimulating or activating than the water. Maybe this outward seeking occurs because we don’t fully recognize and acknowledge the water – the qualities of the citta. Maybe we haven’t fully appreciated the citta – the heart/mind, enjoyed it, sensed it, experienced it as it actually is. If we could be open to enjoying that, feeling happy and satisfied with that, there wouldn’t be this need to throw stuff into it – to want more of this, or less of that, or change it...The practice of Right Effort is to savour skilful states and linger in them because they are food for the heart and if the heart feeds on those skilful states, it won’t get restless and hungry, murky and agitated, fearful and depressed because it is getting good food.
Ajahn Sucitto
Recorded Teachings
Standing Meditation - Opening to Feeling (18:33) Insight Retreat Center, USA; 1 Jul 2018
Getting a sense of the tones that arise in the body. Don’t act immediately, awareness is open and non-intrusive. Noticing the tendencies towards favoring and opposing.
Kamma – Leaving Pain and Misery for a Divine Abiding (48:47) Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, USA; 14 Aug 2021
There is such a thing as good and evil and they give rise to fortunate or unfortunate consequences. Good and evil not as value judgments, but as particular energies that have consequences. The heart opens as a consequence of skillful energies, like generosity and love. This is the key to the celestial domains of the Sacred Cosmos, where gods are void of judgments and keen on Dhamma as a way to happiness.
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