Intuitive Awareness by Ajahn Sumedho Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
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- Religion & Spirituality
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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