‘Awareness is a natural state; it’s normal. It isn’t a compounded state that depends on other conditions.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Theravada
Morning meditation — The wise are not affected by praise or blame.
‘Just as a rock is not shaken by a storm, the wise are not affected by praise or blame.’
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Awareness is a natural state.
‘Awareness is a natural state; it’s normal. It isn’t a compounded state that depends on other conditions.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning Meditation: Only one familiar with the observation of mind.
‘Only one familiar with the observation of mind can really understand Dhamma.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning meditation — Yet there no darkness reigns.
‘Where neither water nor yet earth Nor fire nor air gain a foothold, There gleam no stars, no sun sheds light, There shines no moon, yet there no darkness reigns.’
Bahiya Sutta
Morning meditation — The precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.
‘The Buddha taught that looking after the precepts isn’t hard if you look after yourself.’
Ajahn Chah
Old age and personality, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Ajahn Sumedho explores old age and personality from a meditive persective.
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
Buddhism now 