Ajahn Sumedho's Dharma Talks
Ajahn Sumedho
Ajahn Sumedho is a prominent figure in the Thai Forest Tradition. His teachings are very direct, practical, simple, and down to earth. In his talks and sermons he stresses the quality of immediate intuitive awareness and the integration of this kind of awareness into daily life. Like most teachers in the Forest Tradition, Ajahn Sumedho tends to avoid intellectual abstractions of the Buddhist teachings and focuses almost exclusively on their practical applications, that is, developing wisdom and compassion in daily life. His most consistent advice can be paraphrased as to see things the way that they actually are rather than the way that we want or don't want them to be ("Right now, it's like this..."). He is known for his engaging and witty communication style, in which he challenges his listeners to practice and see for themselves. Students have noted that he engages his hearers with an infectious sense of humor, suffused with much loving kindness, often weaving amusing anecdotes from his experiences as a monk into his talks on meditation practice and how to experience life ("Everything belongs").
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Select from Ajahn Sumedho's
133
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1995-06-15
12 Aspects Of 4 Noble Truths & 8 Fold Path
2006-05-25
5 Khandhas 25
2006-05-20
8 Precepts
2005-06-30
A Sense Of Relaxed Attention
2013-06-23
Advice for Taking on the Monastic Form
2014-01-22
Advice on Meditation
2014-01-25
Advice to New and Old Monks
1995-05-22
Ajahn Sumedho At Spirit Rock
1995-06-13
Allowing Suffering: Transmuting Rubbish Into Metta
2006-07-13
An Opportunity To Be Free
1987-02-10
Anicca, Dukkha & Anatta
1995-06-15
Attainment Vs Letting Go
2005-06-24
Awakened Awareness
2006-07-16
Being The Knower
1990-05-22
Breathing Spirit Into Form
2008-06-14
Buddho, Dhammo, Sangho
2011-01-04
Cessation
2008-06-15
Closing
1995-06-14
Confidence Not To Believe In Negative Moods
2013-06-28
Consciousness
2013-11-24
Consciousness and Guilt
2014-01-23
Consciousness Nibbana and Self
2010-12-17
Contemplating Asubha
1995-06-10
Contemplating The Body, Irritations & Being Someone
1991-03-07
Contemplation Isn't Analytical
2011-02-18
Contentment Gratitude
2005-06-25
Death & Deathlessness
2008-06-15
Deathlessness Is Like This
2011-01-06
Desire Hatred Delusion
2010-12-23
Discernment
2012-06-23
Dullness and Anger - 23.06.2012 & 27.06.2013
1995-06-12
Emotionally Stuck At Age 15
1999-04-20
End Of The Storm
2008-01-11
Endurance-Eat-Speak-Sleep-Little-Practices and Work
2013-11-21
Experiences with Krooba Ajahns
2013-06-27
Fear and Stress in Life
1999-04-18
Food
2008-06-13
Four Times Three Equals Twelve
1999-04-17
Gates To The Deathless
2013-11-20
Getting Samadhi
2006-07-15
Getting To The Root Of The Problem
1999-04-19
Grounded Awareness
1999-04-20
Gwendolyn: What Are You To Me?
1999-04-21
Here And Now
2008-06-10
History Of Zero
2008-06-12
I'm Right, You're Wrong
2005-07-02
I'm Saturday Morning
2005-06-28
In Awareness There's No Dukkha (AM Instructions)
1990-05-15
Initial Meditation Practice
2006-05-28
Investigating Suffering
1987-02-09
Investigating the Four Noble Truths
2005-06-29
It Is The Way It Is
2012-11-27
It Should be Like This
1982-05-02
Karma and Rebirth
2001-04-15
Knower Of The Worlds
1999-04-21
Light At The End
1999-04-24
Listen To Those Turkeys
2005-07-01
Listening To The Sounds Of The Morning
2008-06-08
Me, Ajahn Sumedho, Center Of The Universe
2008-01-11
Meditation
2010-12-26
Meditation Technique
2008-06-10
Metta For All Conditions
2012-06-18
Mindfulness - Not only for the Particulars
2011-09-06
Mindfulness of the Four Noble Truths
2008-06-14
Mirror, Mirror...
1999-04-17
Morning Reflections
2005-07-02
Mother Earth, Father Sky, & The Middle Way
2006-05-27
Not-Self
2010-12-24
Paccuppanna Dhamma
2011-11-25
Pariyatti and Patipatti
1999-04-22
Past And Future
2006-05-26
Paying Attention
1995-06-16
Point Of Intersection Of Timeless With Time
2013-11-21
Practice in Society and Individual Conditioning
1990-05-18
Practice Of Inner Listening
2006-05-22
Question And Answers - 4 Noble Truths
2006-05-23
Questions And Answers
2006-05-24
Questions And Answers
2006-05-25
Questions And Answers
2006-05-21
Reflection
2006-05-22
Reflection
2006-05-23
Reflection
2006-07-17
Relaxed Attention
2013-11-24
Responding to Structures with Awareness
1999-04-18
Ritual and Tradition
1999-04-18
Ritual and tradition
2008-01-11
Role of Teacher and Sangha
2012-11-28
Sakkayaditthi
2008-06-11
Security In Awareness
2014-01-23
Seeing Conditions in Perspective
2014-01-25
Sickness Depression and Ones Own Virtues
2005-06-26
Space & Conciousness
2006-07-12
Terrorist In The Bushes
2005-06-29
That Which Is Inclusive
2014-01-23
That Which is Not a Condition
2014-01-25
The Bodhisatva Ideal
1999-04-25
The Buddha Knows the Dhamma
1982-05-01
The Eight Precepts
2008-06-06
The Essence Of Buddhadhamma
2008-06-06
The Essence Of Buddhadhamma - without opening and closing chanting
2001-04-14
The First Noble Truth: What's Noble About Dukkha
1999-04-23
The Fourth Noble Truth
2008-06-09
The God Of Deathlessness
1991-06-29
The Jewel Of The Dhamma
1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic Life, Part 2
2013-06-27
The Monastic Form
2011-01-02
The One Who Knows
2008-06-07
The Place Is Here, The Time Is Now
2008-06-09
The Point That Includes
1990-05-20
The Return to the Source
2011-09-06
The Sense of I Am
2010-12-20
The Unconditioned
2006-05-24
The Way It Is
1999-04-23
The Way It Is
2008-06-11
This Is Not The Ideal
2010-12-30
Timelessness
2006-05-21
Triple Gem
2001-04-17
Trust In Being The Knowing
1995-06-11
Trusting In Knowing
1990-05-20
Turning On The Light
2008-06-07
Unborn, Unformed, Uncreated, Unconditioned
2005-06-26
Unconditional Love
2013-11-21
Understanding Conditions
2011-09-06
Understanding Structures
2008-06-08
Unenlightened Personalities
2012-04-20
Using the Monastic Form for Awakening
2011-01-09
Watch Your Mind
2011-01-18
We Create the World
2000-09-16
What is Ajahn Chah Now?
2006-07-14
What Is The Unconditioned
2013-11-21
What it is Like to be a Human Being
2005-06-28
Where Jackals Cease
2010-12-26
Worldly Dhammas
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Select one of Ajahn Sumedho's 6 retreats
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1900-01-01
Monday and Wednesday Talks
1990-05-26
The Joys of Monastic Life
1999-04-17
Monastic Retreat
2006-05-20
10 Day Retreat
2006-07-12
Vassa Retreat
2008-06-06
Monastic Retreat
2001-04-14
The First Noble Truth: What's Noble About Dukkha
66:46
The Buddha's teachings are all about awakening to the truth of suffering, or dukkha, and finding the end to it. Our potential for awakening begins to be realized when we shift our attitude to take an interest in suffering, learning from the way it is, and understanding how it gets created. Opening to the truth about suffering, we also open our awareness to something greater -- the ultimate reality.
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