Intuitive Awareness by Ajahn Sumedho Amaravati Buddhist Monastery

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

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

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

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

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

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