Ajahn Sumedho explores old age and personality from a meditive persective.
Buddhist Insights
Morning meditation — The path to awakening.
‘The path to awakening
Is impossible to map.
It is lofty but has no ‘above’;
Impossible to reach its limit.’
Jingjue
Morning Meditation — If you have genuine insight.
‘True understanding — if you have genuine insight, birth and death will not affect you, and you will be free to come and to go.’
Zen Master Rinzai
Morning meditation — Offers a profound insight into the nature of existence.
‘The Buddha’s rejection of both annihilationism and nihilism offers a profound insight into the nature of existence — one that transcends the conventional ideas of life and death, being and non-being.’
Everyday Buddhism
Morning meditation — Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School.
‘Those who know the teaching of the ‘Sudden’ School and attach no importance to rituals, and whose mind functions always under right views, so that they are absolutely free from defilements or contaminations, are said to know their Essence of Mind.’
Hui Neng
Morning meditation — But as a real refuge.
‘But as a real refuge to take in order to see and realise the truth, you can look at the Buddha as that which is mindful, the pure intelligent awareness.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — The way of mindfulness is always appropriate.
‘The way of mindfulness is always appropriate to the time and the place, to the way things are in their good and bad aspects.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — The moment has endless possibilities.
‘We are powerless to change the past, but the moment has endless possibilities.’
Zen Graffiti
Buddhism now 