‘There is no need to be disappointed or annoyed about being drawn away from the main subject of Buddhist meditation.’
Everyday Buddhist
Buddhist meditation
Morning meditation — Before moving in sitting meditation.
‘Before moving in sitting meditation, see if there is discomfort in the mind causing discomfort in the body.’
Everyday Buddhist
Morning meditation — Awareness is a natural state; it’s normal.
‘Awareness is a natural state; it’s normal. It isn’t a compounded state that depends on other conditions.’
Ajahn Sumedho
The object of mind also becomes increasingly subtle and refined.
As the mind becomes calm, the breath, which was originally coarse, becomes correspondingly lighter and more refined. The object of mind also becomes increasingly subtle and refined.
Morning meditation — Mindfulness in words.
‘Mindfulness in words — trying to make an internal commentary of what one is doing — is just a kind of illusion.’
Trevor Leggett
Five Talks on Atammayatā — the highest knowledge in this world, as described by the Thai Forest monk Ajahn Buddhadāsa.
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu introduces the Pāli word ‘atammayatā’ as something that might seem a little bit strange, but we’ve been traveling all over looking for it without even knowing it.
Morning meditation — Mindfulness is not thinking.
‘Mindfulness is not thinking, this is one of the reasons it is so powerful’
Trevor Leggett
Buddha as Person, Buddha as Experience.
As we live it, our practice becomes the vessel that carries us forward, and with each moment of awareness, we touch upon the truth the Buddha himself encountered under the Bodhi tree.
Buddhism now 