Many of us were truly sad to be saying goodbye to Ajahn Sumedho who has retired from his abbotship and duties at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery…
Ajahn Sumedho
The Four Stages, by Ajahn Sumedho
Am I a non-returner? Will I ever become an arahant?’ This is the worldly mind grasping the concepts.
Mindfulness and Wisdom by Ajahn Sumedho.
This word ‘satisampajanna’ (mindfulness and wisdom) has an embracing quality about it. It doesn’t refer to…
Meditation and Psychotherapy, by Ajahn Sumedho
The way to liberate the mind is through mindfulness or awareness, and this is the essence of the Buddha’s teaching; this is the important one. It isn’t that people in general are never mindful or always…
Let Go of Fire, by Ajahn Sumedho
The human habit of clinging to desire is ingrained. We in the West think of ourselves as sophisticated and educated, but when we really begin to see what is going on in our minds, it is rather frightening-most of us are horribly ignorant…
Try to imagine deathlessness, by Ajahn Sumedho
..and all you get is some kind of immortal fantasy, a heavenly fantasy where everything is beautiful…
Loving kindness and equanimity, by Ajahn Sumedho
But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…
Samatha and Vipassana
In the Theravada teachings on samatha-vipassanà, they divide meditation ― that English word ‘meditation’ ― into tranquillity and insight (samatha and vipassanà).
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