‘Being born itself implies that we are going to be subject to different forces beyond our control.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — The significance of the Buddhist teaching.
‘The significance of the Buddhist teaching lies in the fact that it isn’t doctrinal. It’s not an attempt to tell us how things should be, it’s more a way of bringing our attention to the way things are.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Our society is based on becoming.
‘Our society is based on becoming. I was brought up to become something. We were always looking ahead into the future, always thinking there was something we must do. ‘You’re not good enough the way you are.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation: One accepts — does not necessarily approve.
‘One accepts — does not necessarily approve — but accepts the way one is feeling. And in that perspective, the spiritual path is developed.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness.
‘Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness what a lifespan as a human being involves, the possibilities.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation, by Ajahn Sumedho.
A talk by Ajahn Sumedho on Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation.
Morning meditation — Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness.
‘Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness what a lifespan as a human being involves.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — We can notice visual change and sound.
‘We establish loving-kindness with ourselves by not creating burdens out of what we have done in the past.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 