‘It is useful to aim for a moment of wishless liberation.’
Ayya Khema
Theravada
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
Morning meditation — When our mind is firm and stable.
‘When our mind is firm and stable, mindfulness will arise quickly and easily and this is where we have wisdom.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Lot of our experience is of confusion.
‘Lot of our experience is of confusion, doubt, uncertainty, but we don’t like these kinds of feelings, do we? We prefer clarity and certainty.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 