Ajahn Sumedho Podcast by Amaravati
Hosted by Ajahn Sumedho · Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
4.9from 144 ratings
- 954
- Episodes
- 20
- Transcribed
- 144
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
About Ajahn Sumedho Podcast by Amaravati
This podcast includes the last 888 talks by our founding abbot Ajahn Sumedho, the first Western disciple of Ajahn Chah.
- Publisher
- Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
- Category
- health & fitness · religion & spirituality · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Oct 2014
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
20 of 954 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Loneliness and Kalyāṇamitta
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Why Are We Here?
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trust the Awareness That You Actually Are
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Loneliness and Kalyāṇamitta
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I encourage you to witness that, to observe that. Be the observer, not the one that's trying to avoid it or destroy it. So, so much of our problems I've found personally in my monastic life is the desire to get rid of things. I idolized monasticism about how a pico should be. And you're told when you begin the monastic life how you should be, one of not speaking very much and not eating very much and on and on, like these ideals. that we're instilled by joining the Theravada Sangha. So trying to live up to these ideals, we're avoiding a lot of the realities that we experience in this life. […]
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- 4.8 / 5
- 67 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 77 ratings
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Who hosts Ajahn Sumedho Podcast by Amaravati?
Ajahn Sumedho host the show. Published by Amaravati Buddhist Monastery.
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