Dhamma with Ajahn Sujin

Excerpt from the discussion with Ajahn Sujin in BKK / on Zoom on Sep 17th 2023. [0:00 - Beginning to be a careful person] [A.Sujin] What is that? Is there nothing or what? In order to understand the very subtle reality, it has to begin to be careful person, considering carefully to understand the truth deeper and deeper. It's not just the word but it's there now to be known and what can be known it's just only when it's there, right now, otherwise how can there be the understanding of what we have said. What we have said: just about what is there now, every moment to be understood as it is, one by one. Without beginning to be careful person, considering each word in order to understand the truth, the truth cannot be realized at all because only right understanding can realize the truth. Just the word and the thought cannot realize the truth at all, but the understanding of what is said, about what is there now, is the beginning to understand the reality which i...

(Excerpt from the English-Viet Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin Boriharnwanaket on Zoom (Nov 11th 2022). Advanced topic.) 0:00 - Strong wrong view cannot listen to any truth [Tam B] Ajahn, at the beginning you were talking about wrong view and you said many things that I think very interesting about it and I don't think I really fully got, so maybe it would be helpful if you can elaborate more, thank you. [A. Sujin] When we talk about a reality, we don't talk just at moment when it conditions deeds and speech, it can be strong even it's not spoken out, it can be so strong that it cannot listen to any truth at all or any other word, is that strong or not strong? Is it strong or is it strong just when it's spoken out? Because if there's no such level of strong clinging it cannot condition such words at all. 1:16 - Mano-kamma, just the moment when there is mind-door process So, the mano-kamma, in truth just the moment when there is mind-door process is ma...

(Excerpt from the Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom - Sat Jun 5th 2021) 00:00 - Who speaks the truth [Sundara] We hear people talking about metta, karuna, or pañña for that matter, how do we know that they're speaking the truth? [A. Sujin] Because you see that there is no time at all, before hearing the Teachings, to think about understanding the truth of whatever is there. We just take it so easy as this or that as we think, but can just one word, be object of considering in order to understand the subtlety of each reality? 00:37 - One-at-a-time: no thinking about other things at that moment For example, one-at-a-time, what does it mean? The truth is that at that very moment, when pañña understands just a reality, only one, can there be other realities as object, just like now? It means that there's no understanding of any particular reality at all, just have the idea that they are all dhammas, they're conditioned, they are now appearing because of ...