This book is compiled from talks given mostly in 2001 by Ajahn Sumedho. The first edition was originally published in 2004, but has long since been out of print. This … Read More
L’Ascolto Interiore – Meditazione sul Suono del Silenzio
Ci sono alcuni argomenti che i praticanti della meditazione buddhista conoscono bene: “la consapevolezza del respiro”, in cui ci si focalizza sul ritmo del respiro, “la meditazione camminata”, che ruota … Read More
La Escucha Interior – Meditatión en el Sonido del Silencio
Hay una serie de temas que son muy familiares a las personas que practican meditación budista: “La plena atención en la respiración” que trata de focalizar la atención en el … Read More
Roots and Currents
This book contains a miscellany of my writings, rather than transcribed talks, from throughout my life as an ajahn in the Western Thai Forest sangha. The first part, ‘Roots’, is … Read More
The Breakthrough
This book is based upon the talks and meditation instructions offered during a thirteen-day retreat at Amaravati, in the summer of 2012. It is intended to be something of a follow … Read More
Četras Cēlās Patiesības
Šī brošūra ir sastādīta, izmantojot rediģētas Godājamā Ajahn Sumedho runas par galveno Budas mācību: cilvēces nelaimes var pārvarēt garīgās pilnveides ceļā. Mācība ir nodota, balstoties uz Budas Četrām Cēlajām Patiesībām, … Read More
Feeding the Cedars
In the mid-fifties Luang Por Sumedho (then Robert Jackman) was a medic in the U.S. Navy, serving on a supply ship between the West Coast of the U.S.A. and Japan. During this time he was introduced by a fellow crew-member to the translations of haiku poetry of R.H. Blyth and thence to the writings on Zen Buddhism of D.T. Suzuki. Over fifty years passed between that time and the next opportunity for Luang Por Sumedho to visit Japan. During those intervening decades he had entered monastic life in Thailand (in1966), had been invited back to live in the West (to England, in 1977), and had established many monasteries around the world. Since the contact with D.T. Suzuki’s writings had been the spark which lit the fire of the Buddha’s teaching in his life, Luang Por Sumedho had always had the wish, in the back of his mind, to return to the land of his inspiration and to pay his respects to that first teacher. The opportunity to do so arose in 2009, at the invitation of some long-standing students of his – Richard Smith and Edward & Ead Lewis. This small book recounts that journey of pilgrimage to the graves of D.T. Suzuki and R.H. Blyth, as well as other travels in Japan – the Land of Eight Islands.
