‘Our society is based on becoming. I was brought up to become something. We were always looking ahead into the future, always thinking there was something we must do. ‘You’re not good enough the way you are.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Theravada
Morning meditation: One accepts — does not necessarily approve.
‘One accepts — does not necessarily approve — but accepts the way one is feeling. And in that perspective, the spiritual path is developed.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness.
‘Reflecting on the way it is brings into consciousness what a lifespan as a human being involves, the possibilities.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Morning meditation — In the seen, only the seen.
‘In the seen, only the seen.
In the heard, only the heard.
In the sensed, only the sensed.
In the cognised, only the cognised.
Then, Bāhiya, there will be no ‘’you” in connection with that.’
The Buddha
Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation, by Ajahn Sumedho.
A talk by Ajahn Sumedho on Chronic Pain, Ego and Liberation.
Morning meditation — All conditioned things are not-self.
‘All conditioned things are not-self’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering. This is the path to purification.
The Dhammapada
Morning meditation — If we have wisdom then we’ll be able to examine this natural mind.
‘If we have wisdom then we’ll be able to examine this natural mind of ours and use it as our subject of study.’
Ajahn Chah
Five Talks on Atammayatā — the highest knowledge in this world, as described by the Thai Forest monk Ajahn Buddhadāsa.
Buddhadāsa Bhikkhu introduces the Pāli word ‘atammayatā’ as something that might seem a little bit strange, but we’ve been traveling all over looking for it without even knowing it.
Buddhism now 