‘If the standards are too high and everything is just perfect, then any little thing that disturbs can get you into a rage.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Theravada
Morning meditation — An intuitive moment is not.
‘An intuitive moment is not a rational moment; it isn’t a moment based on common sense and habitual ways of looking at things.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — No matter how appealing an object.
‘No matter how appealing an object, it’s appealing only in worldly sense. It isn’t happiness of liberation; it won’t free you from the world.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The complaining mind, the critical mind.
‘The complaining mind, the critical mind, the always wanting something you don’t have, or not being content with what you do have, is dukkha.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — To get an inkling of voidness liberation.
‘To get an inkling of voidness liberation, we can deliberately empty the mind of all it contains.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — It is useful to aim for a moment.
‘It is useful to aim for a moment of wishless liberation.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — The Buddha did not teach anything inaccessible.
‘The Buddha did not teach anything inaccessible.’
Ayya Khema
Morning meditation — All the ways of talking about that realisation.
“‘Mystical experience’, the ‘insight’ — all the ways of talking about that realisation of the deathless reality — is indescribable.’”
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 