Teachings from Ajahn Sumedho.
Foundations of Buddhism
The Body by Bhante Bodhidhamma
Buddhist Film: A talk given by Bhante Bodhidhamma. (49 minutes)
The Satipatthana Sutta
The Buddha setting out mindfulness as the one way to overcome suffering.
Not being Buddha is suffering
Introduction to Buddhism: Four Noble Truths.
Kalama Sutta translated by Rupert Gethin
Recording of the Kalama Sutta: sometimes called ‘The Buddha’s Charter of Free Inquiry’.
You are not a Permanent Person, by Ajahn Sumedho
One way of dividing up the conditioned realm is into five aggregates (khandhas)
Five Protections Against Sorrow (the Five Precepts Panca Sila)
If as Buddhists we have true awareness, then morality will be our natural behaviour. [Zen Master Bukko]
Parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant
‘Dhamma is like this!… Dhamma is like that!’ Thus have I heard: Parable of the Blind Men and an Elephant.
Loving kindness and equanimity, by Ajahn Sumedho
But metta is much deeper than just nice ideas and good thoughts, isn’t it? It is a way of receiving everything and allowing things to be what they are, both internally and externally…
The Development of Loving-kindness
Just as the radiance of all the stars does not equal a sixteenth part of the moon’s radiance, but the moon’s radiance surpasses them and shines forth, bright and brilliant, even so, whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the mind-release of loving-kindness…
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