Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them…

- Ajahn Sumedho

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

- Ajahn Sumedho

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

- Ajahn Sumedho

Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.

- Ajahn Sumedho

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.

- Ajahn Sumedho

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.

- Ajahn Sumedho

The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence of the mind. It's a…

- Ajahn Sumedho

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

- Ajahn Sumedho

The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an e…

- Ajahn Sumedho