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Ajahn Sucitto (2025)

TO GET YOU ON TRACK...

It may be that you don’t read prefaces – if so, go ahead and dip in. But if you’re interested, this introduction explains the wrap that binds the ensuing passages together.

In Buddhist culture, one celebrates one’s birthday by making offerings and sharing the good kamma of such offering with one’s parents or departed relatives. So, as I was coming up to my 75th birthday, I was moved to consider what would be a suitable offering.

All I have to offer are my explanations of Buddhist teaching and practice; something I’ve been doing for a number of years now. But I rather like those collections of sayings and brief quotes that one can read in a few minutes and yet leave a point for recollection through the day. So I thought I would like to present such a collection.

Ajahn Sucitto

Luang Por Sucitto was the abbot of Cittaviveka – Chithurst Buddhist Monastery from 1992 until 2014. He was born in London and went forth as a bhikkhu in Thailand in March 1976.... Read more

Luang Por Sucitto was the abbot of Cittaviveka – Chithurst Buddhist Monastery from 1992 until 2014. He was born in London and went forth as a bhikkhu in Thailand in March 1976. Luang Por Sucitto returned to Britain in 1978 and took up training under Luang Por Sumedho at the Hampstead Buddhist Vihara. In 1979 he was one of the small group of monks, led by Luang Por Sumedho, who established Cittaviveka – Chithurst Buddhist Monastery.

In 1981 he was sent up to Northumberland to set up a small monastery in Harnham, which subsequently became Aruna Ratanagiri Monastery. In 1984 he accompanied Luang Por Sumedho in establishing Amaravati Buddhist Monastery in Hertfordshire. In 1992 he was appointed abbot of Cittaviveka. On October 26, 2014, he resigned the post, but has continued teaching as before.

Luang Por Sucitto's main work has been in teaching, editing and writing, although he was also largely responsible for the creation of the protocols and standards that flesh out the Ten Precept training of the Sīladharā (nuns) Order.