Ajahn Sucitto

I don't see the page that has the suttas on it.

The, um, it's-- The translation that I work with was done by Ajahn Sucitto, I believe, back in the '80s and, and someone made copies of it back then with little dots, and s-some of you who have sat with me have seen these, little dots above and below the words to show when the note goes up and the note goes down.

And somehow, you know, I, I got my first copy of that in like nineteen ninety-two or something, and somehow I still have copies of that and, and I just keep making photocopies [chuckles] of it year after year.

So, uh, it's, the sutta itself is in the Suttanipata, which is a somewhat obscure collection of suttas.

I had some, uh, retreat, uh, uh, retreat credits.

And, um, [clears throat] so I, I sat a retreat with, uh, uh, Ajahn Sucitto of England.

And, uh, he was ...

He integrated some qigong, uh, energy movement exercises, uh, along with his other, along with his regular Dhamma teachings.

Actually, uh, like, uh, quite a number of the Western monastics have been through there.

Like Ajahn Sucitto did the retreat there, and various others did as well, 'cause it was one of the few places in those days that was teaching in English.

And one of the things that I loved actually about that was that when we did that retreat, they basically didn't teach us anything.

They just said, "This is how you meditate.