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Top 10 Ajahn Sumedho Quotes (2025 Update)

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.”

1. “A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.”

2. “Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

3. “The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “Whatever you think you are, that’s not what you are.”

4. “Whatever you think you are, that’s not what you are.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.”

5. “Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.”

6. “Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “Suttas are not meant to be ‘sacred scriptures’ that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.”

7. “Suttas are not meant to be ‘sacred scriptures’ that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.”

8. “I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.”

9. “We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.”

10. “The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “If you are out on the wheel, you are caught on the dizzying momentum of going round in circles. We call it ‘samsara’ – ‘samsara-vatta’ means ‘going round in circles’ – endless cycles, not really going anywhere but round. That is why when you do things from ignorance, you find yourself coming back and repeating the same things over and over again.”

11. “If you are out on the wheel, you are caught on the dizzying momentum of going round in circles. We call it ‘samsara’ – ‘samsara-vatta’ means ‘going round in circles’ – endless cycles, not really going anywhere but round. That is why when you do things from ignorance, you find yourself coming back and repeating the same things over and over again.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.”

12. “The point is, the Four Stages are not for ego-development or attainment; they are a skilful means for recognizing the way we cling to things.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

Ajahn Sumedho Quote: “One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001.”

13. “One begins to realize that liberation is through letting go, through allowing life to flow, through openness and attention. 1 August 2001.”

— Ajahn Sumedho

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