Intuitive Awareness by Ajahn Sumedho

Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

Awareness is your refuge: Awareness of the changingness of feelings, of attitudes, of moods, of material change and emotional change: Stay with that, because it’s a refuge that is indestructible. It’s not something that changes. It’s a refuge you can trust in. This refuge is not something that you create. It’s not a creation. It’s not an ideal. It’s very practical and very simple, but easily overlooked or not noticed. When you’re mindful, you’re beginning to notice, it’s like this. – Ajahn Sumedho, Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. www.amaravati.org

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19 episodes
Updated Oct 28, 2014

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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 3 min
Reflecting on Metta
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Oct 28, 2014 · 57 min
Reflecting on Discernment
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 1 min
The Flow of Experience
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Oct 28, 2014 · 51 min
Commitment to Delusion – Magha Puja
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 10 min
Luang Por’s 70th Birthday Talk
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 13 min
What is The Holy Life
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Oct 28, 2014 · 59 min
This Is Life
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 6 min
You’ve Got a Lot of Work to Do Sinner!
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr
What is It? It’s Like This
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 5 min
I’ts all Part of Practise
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Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 9 min
Consciousness (page 133)
Consciousness is a subject that has become quite important these days. We are all experiencing consciousness; we want to understand it and define it. Some people say that they equate consciousness …excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Consciousness (page 133) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 2 min
Trusting in Simplicity (page 147)
The attitude of ‘conviviality’ is an attempt to encourage you to see the holy life as something beautiful and enjoyable, and to open to it rather than just shut down…excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Trusting in Simplicity (page 147) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 52 min
The End of Suffering is Now (page 97)
On a conventional level we easily conceive the conditions which we attach to. With sati-panya and sati-sampajanya we begin to awaken ourselves to the way it is, rather than being committed to the…excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post The End of Suffering is Now (page 97) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 57 min
Sound of Silence (page 85)
Somebody referred to the sound of silence as a cosmic hum, a scintillating almost electric background sound. Even though it’s going on all the time we don’t generally notice it, but when your mind is open and …excerpts from the book Intuitive Awarenes The post Sound of Silence (page 85) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr
Suffering Should Be Welcomed (page 65)
One of the epithets for the Buddha we chant is lokavida (knower of the world). Of course we can see that this is a quality of the Buddha, but something …excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Suffering Should Be Welcomed (page 65) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 46 min
When You’re an Emotional Wreck (page 51)
Although right now were in a perfect retreat situation where we’ve got everything under control and perfect for what we regard as a proper, formal retreat. In contrast to this next week there will be a lot of comings …excerpts from the book Intuitive Aw The post When You’re an Emotional Wreck (page 51) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 1 min
Don’t Take it Personally (page 111)
We have just three weeks left of the Vassa (rains retreat). The words in this sentence are perceptions of time and change, in the conditioned realm. ‘Vassa’ is a convention …excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Don’t Take it Personally (page 111) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 59 min
Identity (page 37)
Is there anyone, any person or any condition that is absolutely right — or absolutely wrong? Can right and wrong or good and bad, be absolute? When you dissect it, when you really look at it in terms of …excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Identity (page 37) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
Oct 28, 2014 · 1 hr 8 min
Intuitive Awareness (page 19)
In contemplating right understanding I like to emphasise seeing it as an intuitive understanding and not a conceptual one. I have found it very helpful just contemplating the difference between analytical…excerpts from the book Intuitive Awareness The post Intuitive Awareness (page 19) appeared first on Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.