‘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
Theravada
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
Morning Meditation — This is a fundamental illusion.
‘This is a fundamental illusion constantly being conditioned in the human mind, in the mind of all sentient beings. And it is rooted in ignorance. This illusion, the idea of a self.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Letting Go of Ideals by Ajahn Sumedho
Letting Go of Ideals.
Morning meditation — Realise that the world is going to be this way.
‘Realise that the world is going to be this way, that there is always going to be something you don’t like.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 