Encouragement to ‘bear the reality’ of suffering, to listen beneath the splits
The holding of splits within this one heart
Empathy rather than judgement
The difficult practice of compassion
An abandoned old lady
Bearing reality of being human
With patience obstruction drop away
Like walking into the mist
The more the suffering, the more the bliss
Indestructible Heart
Compassion says ‘I am Everything’ - Wisdom ‘I am Nothing’
Where emptiness leans into aversion and compassion into grasping
Ajahn Chah’s reflection on teachings as way of providing balance
Metta and the attendant blessings of metta
Meeting English football hooligans
Using the breath to steady the mind, to reflect on impermanence and to see ‘non ownership’
The boulder is not heavy if you don’t pick it up
This is ‘how it is’ – methods to access the third noble truth
Replacing reactivity with mindfulness – the flood stopper
The 4 truths that en-noble as we grow through them
The 8 kinds of Dukkha – Anando, ex marine & monk, bowing through anger
Death is also impermanent, seeing through impermanence, one touches peace.
When the causes of dukkha break up, it ceases - revealing the timeless dharma.
The tendency of the proliferating mind to designate permanence to the transitory through the process of thought
Papanca – conceptual proliferation creates the billion fragments of the world
The Diamond Sutra – The Guest and the Host
What remains?
Kappa’s question to the Buddha
The Buddha’s reluctance to teach
The first turning of the Dhamma wheel
The Four Noble truths and accompanying practices
Contemplating desire – resolving dukkha – the primary split.
Replacing reactivity of mind with mindfulness
Mindfulness as container & as that which reveals & discerns what is
Citta conditioned by perception & sankhara
Healing the citta through mindful awareness
Finding balanced energy as a support for mindfulness
Meeting Ajahn Chah in Thailand
Know the breath and you’ll know everything
Opening the Dharma Eye
Underlying pervasive peace
Samsara & Nibbana arise at the same place
Kittisaro’s father and mother meeting Ajahn Chah
The terrorists of the heart that rob the true treasure
Finding a solid footing
Ajahn Chah's encouragement to be an earth worm rather than a bodhisattva
Ajahn Chah’s take on Samatha & Vipassana
Letting go is peace
