Series · 8 parts
The Four Noble Truths Retreat
Ajahn Sumedho · 6h 38m in all
Eight talks Ajahn Sumedho gave at a week-long retreat in Singapore in February 2023, on trusting awareness and understanding suffering.
Ajahn Sumedho teaches six mornings, one public evening talk and a short closing from a retreat held in Singapore. He starts from the Buddha’s first teaching, suffering to be understood and not escaped, and keeps returning to one instruction: trust conscious awareness as the gate to the deathless. Along the way he covers desire, the three fetters, the Buddho mantra, silence, grief, the four postures and rebirth.
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The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 1Ajahn Sumedho opens a Four Noble Truths retreat in Singapore: taking refuge in awareness, suffering understood rather than escaped, and desire as its cause.56:38 · ✓ Played - 2
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 2Ajahn Sumedho on trusting conscious awareness and on three obstructions to the path: self-view, convention and doubt.58:06 · ✓ Played - 3
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 3Ajahn Sumedho on the deathless as conscious awareness here and now, and why the body, memory and imagined rebirths are not a refuge.56:07 · ✓ Played - 4
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 4Ajahn Sumedho on consciousness as the ground of experience, the Buddho mantra with the breath, the sound of silence, and grief as natural.55:18 · ✓ Played - 5
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 5Ajahn Sumedho's public evening talk in Singapore: mindfulness turned inward, the four heavenly messengers, and the four postures.58:34 · ✓ Played - 6
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 6Ajahn Sumedho on suppressed emotion, the silence behind thought, the Four Noble Truths as a signpost, and the three characteristics.54:46 · ✓ Played - 7
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 7Ajahn Sumedho on the last full day: trusting awareness as the gate to the deathless, personality, generosity, virtue and what rebirth means.54:30 · ✓ Played - 8
The Four Noble Truths Retreat, Part 8Ajahn Sumedho's brief closing words at the end of the retreat in Singapore, as the eight precepts give way to five.4:01 · ✓ Played
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- OrganisationAmaravati Buddhist Monastery: YouTube channel, The 4 Noble Truths Retreat talks by Ajahn Sumedho
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