Dhamma with Ajahn Sujin

Excerpt from the Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom on Sat Feb 10th 2024. 0:00 - No attention to or even thinking about the nature which sees because it does not appear [Eve] Tan Ajahn, please, when I join the zoom meeting I'm testing viriya, the energy and the effort to continue listening and it's continuing but in a sense letting go, not with an eye to the results. Because if I wait for understanding, it's a long wait... [A. Sujin] Okay, would you like to let go of the ignorance of seeing right now? [Yes.] How long will it take? Because there's no attention to or even thinking about the nature which sees because it does not appear, what appears is only that which is seen. So, even there is seeing right now, without energy or viriya arising with it at all, but who knows? Because moments after that, when there are conditions, viriya is there. That's why we learn to understand dhammas as no one at all, all by conditions. And why doesn't seeing a...

Excerpt from the EN-VN Dhamma discussion with Ajahn Sujin on Zoom on Sun Feb 4th 2024. 0:00 - The Buddha's hints or the way to understand all the subtle truths [Tam B.] We discussed a little bit about manasikara, I think it would be helpful if we can hear more. [A. Sujin] If the Buddha didn't say anything about the difference between what is there in a moment, citta and cetasikas, there wouldn't be any hint or any way to understand the truth that is so very subtle, all of them. For example even just a moment of seeing, there must be phassa, otherwise there couldn't be the moment of seeing at all, but whenever there is seeing, thee other cetasika like manasikara attends to that which is seen because all cetasikas experience the same object which citta experiences. That's why phassa is there, sañña, viriya is there, unknown, but they are there, cetana is there. Manasikara is there, that which attends to the characteristic which appears, wisely or unwisely ...