Ajahn Succito was born in London in 1949. He received bikkhu ordination in 1976 in Thailand, came to Britain in 1978 and was part of the original group established Cittaviveka under Ajahn Sumedho in 1979. Ajahn Sucitto helped establish Harnham Vihara in 1981, then Amaravati in 1984, and in 1992 became the third abbot of Cittaviveka, where he remains today.
“When you handle the present with mindfulness, the future will be conditioned by awareness”
“Samadhi arises- not of forcing the mind onto the breath but out of a relationship of ease, contentment, trust, and steadiness”
“True relationship is a dynamic experience, isn’t it? It’s not a fixed or static thing. It’s a way of being that involves the openness and the skill to be present with the way it is. If we don’t do that, the relationship becomes distorted with projections. Consider, for example, how many human relationships get distorted because they follow the wrong impulses. ‘I want you to be this way. You’ve got to be this for me’. As long we’re coming from self-interest we’ll always see things in terms of how we want them to be, and this can only be a very limited perspective. Follow it, and there’s disappointment, bitterness, and betrayal.”
