‘The way out of suffering is meditation itself.’
Ajahn Chah
Theravada
Morning meditation — When operating on a personal level.
‘When operating on a personal level ― from how things should be ― it seems that life is always a struggle.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — The crude, beginning level of the practice.
‘The crude, beginning level of the practice is a little hard to maintain, but the refined levels all come out of this.’
Ajahn Chah
You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths. By Ajahn Sumedho
You don’t have to believe these Four Noble Truths — but realise them.
Morning meditation — If a person speaks or acts with pure mind.
If a person speaks or acts with pure mind, joy follows them like their own shadow.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — Knowing the world as the world means.
‘Knowing the world as the world means that you are fully aware of the existential reality of being a human being.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Buddha says in the Dhammapada.
Buddha says in the Dhammapada that we should work for our own liberation because the buddhas can only show us the way.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — You might have denied and rejected things.
‘You might have denied and rejected things in the past, but in awareness you include and open to them.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 