‘Awareness is aware of doubts about our ability to meditate, about our doubts about being aware!’
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Awareness isn’t personal.
‘Awareness isn’t personal. The idea that we are not aware and need to develop awareness, is in itself a creation.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Buddha was a conscious individual human.
‘Buddha was a conscious individual human being not lost in delusion or the conditioning of his mind.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Emotions can be very convincing.
‘Emotions can be very convincing, very powerful, like a melodrama. They can sound real and true when they’re going on.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — When operating on a personal level.
‘When operating on a personal level ― from how things should be ― it seems that life is always a struggle.’
Ajahn Sumedho
You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths. By Ajahn Sumedho
You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths — but realise them.
Morning meditation — Knowing the world as the world means.
‘Knowing the world as the world means that you are fully aware of the existential reality of being a human being.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — You might have denied and rejected things.
‘You might have denied and rejected things in the past, but in awareness you include and open to them.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 