Dhamma Books Library


Anthology Vol 1 – Peace is a Simple Step

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2014 / English

Preface Peace is a Simple Step brings together material that forms a foundation to Ajahn Sumedho’s teachings, from talks that were given in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It...

Anthology Vol 3 – Direct Realization

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2014 / English

Preface This volume contains material gathered from talks given by Ajahn Sumedho in the late 1980s and 1990s. It is made up of two collections – The Way It Is...

Anthology Vol 5 – The Wheel of Truth

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2014 / English

Preface The title of this book refers to the image of the Buddha’s teaching, the Wheel of Truth (or Dhamma). It is a wheel that he set rolling in his...

Cittavivaka

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2011 / English

Introduction 'CITTAVIVEKA', the title of this book, is a word in the Pali language meaning 'the mind of non-attachment'. A major theme of the Buddha's teaching – known as the...

Intuitive Awareness

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2017 / English

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...

Mindfulness – The Path to the Deathless

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2013 / English

Introduction The aim of this book is to provide instruction and reflection on Buddhist meditation as taught by Ajahn Sumedho, using material extracted from talks he gave in the early...

Nothing is More Joyless Than Selfishness

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2010 / English

Foreword These teachings were originally talks given by Venerable Ajahn Sumedho during his stay at Wat Pah Nanachat, the International Forest Monastery in the North-East of Thailand, in May 1989....

Now is the Knowing

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2011 / English

Buddha Dhamma Sangha When people ask, ‘What do you have to do to become a Buddhist?’, we say that we take refuge in Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha. And to take refuge...

The Four Noble Truths (Illustrated Edition)

By Ajahn Sumedho / 2020 / English

A small booklet of edited talks given by Ajahn Sumedho on the central teaching of the Buddha: that the unhappiness of humanity can be overcome through spiritual means. This new...

The way it is

By Ajahn Sumedho / 1989 / English

Introduction This book contains a collection of teachings of Ajahn Sumedho given to people who are familiar with the conventions of Theravada Buddhism and have some experience of meditation. Most...