‘In Buddhism we use the term ‘‘the Middle Way’’, or we can say ‘‘a transcendent path’’.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — This way of going from believing something to not believing something.
‘This way of going from believing something to not believing something is really a mental trick we play on ourselves.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — When we are mindful and accept the way it is.
‘When we are mindful and accept the way it is, then we are not creating hostility.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — There’s noise and unpleasant things happen.
‘There’s noise and unpleasant things happen, but if we become averse to them, then we are creating hostility.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — If the standards are too high.
‘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
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
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