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Ajahn Sumedho | Featured Teaching




Attending to the Here and Now

A Dhamma talk given at the Spirit Rock retreat on July 3rd, 2005

Ajahn Sumedho

April 3, 2006

When we’re thinking, planning, dreading, anticipating, hoping, expecting something in the future, this is all taking place in the here and now, isn’t it? These are mental states we’re creating in the present. What is the future? What is the past? There’s only now, this present moment. We may then wonder, What is it that knows? We always want to define the subject. Is that the real me? Is that my true self? This subjectivity and questioning and wanting to find some identity is also a creation in the now. If we trust in the silence, there’s nobody. We can’t find anybody in the sound of silence. The whole problem ceases.

Ajahn Sumedho | Articles




Attending to the Here and Now
A Dhamma talk given at the Spirit Rock retreat on July 3rd, 2005
The Problem of Personality
An article from Buddhadharma magazine - Summer 2005 Issue
Life Is Like This
Adapted from a talk given at Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Who We Really Are
From Forest Sangha Newsletter, October 1996, Number 38
Universal Loving Kindness
From Forest Sangha Newsletter, October 1997, Number 42
There’s No Place Like Here
From Fearless Mountain Newsletter, Summer 1999, Vol 4 No 2
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Ajahn Sumedho | Books




Mindfulness: The Path to the Deathless
The meditation teaching of Ajahn Sumedho
Now Is The Knowing
A short book of four chapters dealing with the Triple Gem, Anapanasati, Happiness and Unhappiness, and Nibbana
The Four Noble Truths
A collection of talks dealing with understanding and practicing the Four Noble Truths
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Ajahn Sumedho | Audio




The Value of Awareness listen | download
A Dhamma talk given at Abhayagiri on June 21st, 2005
Awaken to the Natural Flow listen | download
Opening to the here and now
For Ajahn Sumedho talks visit listen | download
www.DhammaTalks.org.uk
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