Suchness

We point to the suchness, the 'as is' one. Being here is This Way …. as it is now. This use of language is quite new in English because usually we talk about the externals, the dualism of sensory experience and we are continuously becoming / creating ourselves. Our minds are capable of believing in an absolute all powerful god or in believing the opposite. Just sitting here we are aware when the mind stops. We begin to see how we get caught up in proliferation when we give our thoughts soil to grow in. We can also see how it is natural and refrain from putting aversion on it. Use every experience to see how it is and to contemplate it – including waiting and hoping that discomfort will end and bliss will arise in our sitting practice instead of the restlessness and doubt we may be experiencing. Being patient with whatever arises, allowing it and observing it, we are able to stop battling it. Knowing it we can let it go. We need to be sincere and honest in the practice.

Reviews

Vintage Sumedho. 🙏🌞❤️🥰🙏

Commit to this.

One of my favorites for examples and reflections of impermanence.

This is NOT a meditation, but an excellent Dhamma talk. This is the first time I've really understood proliferations and what to do with them--on and off the cushion.

This is the first talk of Ajahn Sumedho that I’ve ever heard and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was an experience of being submerged into a beautiful wisdom. Thank you. I look forward to bookmarking this talk and listening to it many more times.