You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths — but realise them.
Ajahn Sumedho
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
Morning meditation — Buddha is wisdom.
‘Buddha is the knowing of condition as condition. Buddha is wisdom, knowing wisdom, and this is what we take refuge in.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Our lives as human beings.
‘Our lives as human beings are spent in dealing with the experience of consciousness.’
Ajahn Sumedho
You Don’t ‘Experience’ Consciousness, by Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhist insights, from impermanence to conscious awareness, bright, shining everywhere.
Morning meditation — The Four Stages as described.
‘The Four Stages as described in the Pali Canon are reflective teachings aimed at getting perspective on our own experience.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Followers of the way, we are all brothers and sisters.
‘Followers of the way, we are all brothers and sisters because we all share the same—old age, sickness, and death.’
Ajahn Sumedho