‘If the standards are too high and everything is just perfect, then any little thing that disturbs can get you into a rage.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — An intuitive moment is not.
‘An intuitive moment is not a rational moment; it isn’t a moment based on common sense and habitual ways of looking at things.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — The complaining mind, the critical mind.
‘The complaining mind, the critical mind, the always wanting something you don’t have, or not being content with what you do have, is dukkha.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — All the ways of talking about that realisation.
“‘Mystical experience’, the ‘insight’ — all the ways of talking about that realisation of the deathless reality — is indescribable.’”
Ajahn Sumedho
Letting Go of Ideals by Ajahn Sumedho
Letting Go of Ideals.
Morning meditation — Realise that the world is going to be this way.
‘Realise that the world is going to be this way, that there is always going to be something you don’t like.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Lot of our experience is of confusion.
‘Lot of our experience is of confusion, doubt, uncertainty, but we don’t like these kinds of feelings, do we? We prefer clarity and certainty.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Trust is important.
‘Trust is important. There is so much fear and suspicion in our lives that we don’t trust ourselves or anyone else very much.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 