Ajahn Sumedho Podcast by Amaravati
Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
This podcast includes the last 888 talks by our founding abbot Ajahn Sumedho, the first Western disciple of Ajahn Chah.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Oct 23, 2014 • 27min
Beyond The Mystery of Thinking – Morning Talk (170)
1995-02-09; edits 22-03-23(MA)
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Oct 23, 2014 • 1h 4min
Sister Upala’s Death, The Relationship of the Mortal to the Immortal (159)
1993-05-16; edits 22-03-19 (MA)
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Oct 23, 2014 • 1h 19min
Death, God, Sex etc (196)
1995-11-16 (edited April 2024).
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Questions and answers
Q1 – When someone we love dies young, how can we understand it in a way that really helps?
29:50 Q2 – Could you say something about the nature of taṇhā and how it differs from other kinds of desire?
44:58 Q3 – There are some traditions I think in Japan where monks can get married. Would you say that they don’t develop awareness in the same way? Or would you say that they could use the sexual experience to develop awareness?
46:55 Q4 Question indistinct
49:39 Q5 Question lost in static and deleted
49:49 Q6 (follow up) But in the experience of sex there can be desirelessness.
50:45 Q7 (Sex) can be quite a spiritual experience too, enhancing in spirit rather than just gratifying on the sexual side.
55:18 Q8 Can you say something about why it is that some of the most enlightened people in this century have been so strongly against the practice of Buddhism?
01:00:41 Q9 Where does God tie into the religious life experience?
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Oct 23, 2014 • 42min
Present Moment, Holy Moment – Winter Retreat (123)
1995-02-12
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Oct 23, 2014 • 56min
Don’t Be Afraid to be a Buddha (172)
1995-02-08
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Oct 23, 2014 • 53min
The Joy of Dying, Winter Retreat (173)
1995-02-11
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Oct 23, 2014 • 52min
We are Already Extraordinary – Winter Retreat
1995-02-14
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Oct 23, 2014 • 38min
Make Friends With Failure, Nuns Ordination
1996-12-15
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Oct 23, 2014 • 1h 16min
Fear of Exposure – Winter Retreat (194)
1995-02-19
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Oct 23, 2014 • 60min
The Gates to the Deathless are Open, Kathina (First in new Temple) (224)
1996-11-17
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