Dhamma with Ajahn Sujin

(Excerpt from the Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Sat Mar 25th 2023) 0:00 - The power of citta: without it nothing could appear [Sarah] We're discussing a lot about the importance of understanding citta, any kind of citta but including any kind of vipaka even bhavanga cittas. [A. Sujin] If there's no understanding of citta, can there be the letting go of the idea of self? For example, how can we understand the moment of vipaka? And kusala or akusala as cittas accompanied by different cetasikas? That's why we think about the conditions or the factors of citta and the object of citta, but what about the citta itself? Usually we think about other things, no understanding of citta. It's so very powerful in the sense that without it nothing could appear, there couldn't be anything at all. But there is a reality which ignores, just learning about vipaka cittas and kusala cittas and akusala cittas, but in truth what is its nature, what we call nam...

(Excerpt from the EN-CN Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Sun Mar 12th 2023 am) 00:00 - Talking about reality [A. Sujin] So now, I think that it's time to begin to have a little more understanding of reality because you see that we're talking about reality. So, before going on to any kind of reality there can be the understanding of the word that we have heard so many times long ago, but it's time to begin again, to start again to have a little more understanding. So now, it's easy to say the word nama and rupa, but the reality, the nature of a nama right now? For example, there must be a reality which experiences an object right now, right? We don't talk about anything yet, just the reality which experiences an object, is [it] there now? We don't think about seeing or hearing or hardness or softness, just a reality which is real right now. Is there a reality which experiences an object right now? It's not easy at all to think about the ...