Greetings friends,
This Sunday finds me again at Lake Santa Fe, watching clouds and reflections in the water that remind me that this moment is precious, as it is changing breath by breath. I have been reading from both Sayadaw U Tejaniya, a living Burmese Vipassana master and from Ajahn Sucitto, whom most of you know is close to my heart (my citta). Both teachers speak in their own style to explain the dhamma. The nature of all life which includes human life; our views that bias our perception of reality, our formations and reactions to sensory data that condition our minds and shape our lives each moment. They speak about how we can wake up to see this pattern, this “dependent origination” that starts with ignorance. They speak about how we can develop continuous awareness, how we stop the noise, the pain, the suffering that fills our minds and enters our hearts.
This all seems to me to be a great endeavor; why not give it a go? What do we have to lose?
I will read some of the writing of Ajahn Sucitto from his blog called “Awareness, Nameless and Stopped.”
I do hope that many of you can join me at the lake on Monday at noon for an hour together.