This awareness contemplates on the sound of silence. This book contains a collection of teachings that ajahn sumedho gave in the 1980s with. This is the only sound which appears when all your. In 1991, when ajahn sumedho taught the sound of silence as a method on a retreat at a. Free download as epub, mobi, and pdf from abhayagiri paper copy can. Being totally thoughtless may be the toughest thing to do but it is the only state in which you can listen to the sound of silence aum. Roerich, made by george sharp as a gift to ajahn sumedho.
Im very into music so i came up with my own affirmation to add to the one above. Direct realization direct realizationlume 3 abhayagiri buddhist. The sound of silence ajahn sumedho added on jul 27th, 2014. There was silence for a while and then rory said in his quiet way, nearly as. The collected teachings of ajahn sumedho by ajahn sumedho isbn. Listening to the sound of silence mindfulness exercises. Its really helped me to have someone articulate the fact that silence actually has a sound of its own that we can tune into and is not just a dead space where there is an absence of sound. Ajahn sumedho talks about listening to the sound of silence. The sound of silence abhayagiri buddhist monastery. While incorporating that material, the sound of silence added another sixteen talks from 2005 and earlier to give a fuller perspective on. Vol 2 seeds of understanding, and vol 4 the sound of silence, are not. Books by ajahn sumedho online, in epub, mobi or pdf format.
Ajahn sumedho said that he was directly influenced by edward salim michaels book, the way of inner vigilance republished in 2010 with the new title, the law of attention, nada yoga and the way of inner vigilance and for which ajahn sumedho wrote a preface. The sound of silence is the fourth of five volumes created to honour the life and work of ajahn sumedho on his 80th birthday. As a book, the sound of silence has its origins in a collection, intuitive awareness, which was produced by samanera amaranatho from talks that ajahn sumedho gave in the monastic retreat at amaravati in 2001. During the monastic retreats, ajahn sumedho frequently teaches. This book is the fourth of five volumes created to honour the life and work of ajahn sumedho on his. I am aware of the sound of silence in music and other things.
Sumedho, ajahn, amaranatho, samanera, amaro, ajahn. The sound of silence is also the title of one of ajahn sumedho s books published by. Ajahn sumedho urges us to trust in awareness and find out for ourselves what it is to experience genuine liberation from mental anguish and suffering, just as the buddha himself did two and a half thousand years ago. The sound of silence is like a subtlety behind everything that you awaken to. In many of these talks ajahn sumedho expounds on the uniquely buddhist expression of notself anatta. He maintains this to be the buddhas way of pointing to the experience of ultimate reality that is the goal of many religions.
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