Dhamma Talks for download:
Coming from
Silence
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Half is Over
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
The Magic
of Awareness
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Welcome to the Deathless of Real
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.06.2008
Creating Buddha Arahants and Self
(13.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.05.2008
Dissolving Into Silence
(11.9Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.05.2008
New Years
Eve Talk 2006
(15.1Mb mp3) - uploaded 09.05.2008
Intuitive Awereness
(15.6Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.04.2008
Reflecting on Metta
(14.4Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.04.2008
What is It It's Like This
(13.7Mb mp3) - uploaded 07.04.2008
Producing Mangoes from the Palms of Your Hands
(17.4Mb mp3) - uploaded 04.03.2008
Protecting your Identity
(13.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 04.03.2008
You've got a Lot of Work to Do Sinner
(15.2Mb mp3) - uploaded 04.03.2008
Reflecting on Consciousness
(15.8Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.02.2008
This is Life
(13.5Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.02.2008
What is the Holy Life
(16.7Mb mp3) - uploaded 05.02.2008
It's all Part of Practise
(15.1Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.01.2008
Sweeping Through the Body
(11.7Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.01.2008
The Flow of Experience
(13.9Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.01.2008
Collecting the Mind in the Moment
(24Mb mp3) - uploaded 14.12.2007
Letting the
World End
(28Mb mp3) - uploaded 14.12.2007
Reflecting
on Discernment
(27Mb mp3) - uploaded 14.12.2007
How to Stop
Thinking
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.11.2007
Seeking Revenge
(16Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.11.2007
True
Purity
(18Mb mp3) - uploaded 10.11.2007
Acceptance
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.10.2007
Awareness as Path, Path as Awareness
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.10.2007
Omni Presence
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.10.2007
Pointing to
the Present
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.10.2007
Blessed by the Buddha
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2007
Kathina
Talk 2006
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2007
Timeless
Reality
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2007
Why be
Ignorant When You Don't Have To
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2007
A Duck Among Chickens
(16Mb mp3) - uploaded 2.8.2007
How to Use the Convention
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 2.8.2007
No Secret Teachings Here
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 2.8.2007
Sitting Under the Bodhi Tree
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 2.8.2007
72nd Birthday
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 8.7.2007
Buddhist Contribution to World Peace and Sustainable Deve
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 8.7.2007
We are Different Cookies
(17Mb mp3) - uploaded 8.7.2007
Dis-ease-Grumble-Grumble
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 3.6.2007
How to Receive Criticism?
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 3.6.2007
The Celestial Garden
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 3.6.2007
Being the Knower
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.5.2007
Getting to the Root of the Problem
(16Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.5.2007
Right View
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.5.2007
The Goody Good Practice
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.5.2007
Relaxed Attention
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
Terrorist in the Bushes
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
We Are The Best
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
What is the Unconditioned?
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.4.2007
An Opportunity to Be Free
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.12.2006
Space and Consciousness
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 11.11.2006
Unconditioned Love
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 11.11.2006
The Path to Liberation
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 22.10.2006
Exploring Conscious Experience
(19Mb mp3) - uploaded 22.10.2006
Exploring Desire and Becoming
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2006
The Lion's Roar of Mara
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 5.9.2006
In Awareness There is No Dukkha
(10Mb mp3) - uploaded 4.8.2006
That Which is Inclusive
(7Mb mp3) - uploaded 4.8.2006
Getting Out of the Sewer
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.7.2006
Welcoming Receptivity
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.7.2006
I'm Saturday Morning
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.6.2006
Mother Earth, Father Sky, and the Middle Way
(15Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.6.2006
Death and Deathlessness
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 9.5.2006
From Somewhere to Nothing
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 7.4.2006
I Don't Know Death
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 8.3.2006
Limitations of Thought
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 8.3.2006
Awakened Awareness
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.2.2006
Dhammacakka Teaching
(11Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.2.2006
Listening to the Sound of Silence
(13Mb mp3) - uploaded 3.1.2006
Commitment to Delusion
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 3.1.2006
Suffering Should Be Welcomed
(14Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.12.2005
The End of Suffering is Now
(12Mb mp3) - uploaded 13.12.2005
Being an Emotional Wreck
(22Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.11.2005
Chithurst Temple Opening Talk
(25Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.11.2005
Ideas of How You Should Be
(33Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.11.2005
Atammayata - Not That Concoction
(29Mb mp3) - uploaded 6.10.2005
Don't Take
It Personally
(29Mb mp3) - uploaded 17.9.2005
Mindfulness
(17Mb mp3) - uploaded 30.7.2005
Swimming Around in the Sea of Consciousness
(14Mb
mp3) - uploaded 30.5.2005
Relaxed
Receptivity
(12Mb
mp3) - uploaded 30.5.2005
Creating Yourself
(12Mb
mp3) - uploaded 31.3.2005
Link to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery
Biography
Luang Por Sumedho was born in Seattle, Washington in
1934. After serving four years in the US Navy as a medic, he completed a
BA in Far Eastern Studies and a MA in South Asian Studies.
In 1966, he went to Thailand to practice meditation at Wat Mahathat in
Bangkok. Not long afterwards, he went forth as a novice monk in a remote
part of the country, Nong Khai, before receiving full ordination in
1967.
A year of solitary practice followed. Although fruitful, it showed him
the need for a teacher who could more actively guide him. A fortuitous
encounter with a visiting monk led him to Ubon province to practice with
Luang Por Chah. He took dependence from Luang Por Chah and remained
under his close guidance for ten years.
In 1975, Luang Por Sumedho, established Wat Pah Nanachat, International
Forest Monastery where Westerners could be trained in English.
In 1977, he accompanied Luang Por Chah to England and took up residence
at the Hampstead Vihara, with three other monks.
Luang Por Sumedho was made an Upachaya, in 1981. Since
then he has given upasampada (Bhikkhu precepts) to more than a hundred
aspirants of many nationalities. Luang Por Sumedho was integral in
establishing the Forest Sangha tradition in the United Kingdom. He was
central in establishing Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and Chithurst
Buddhist Monastery. He is currently resident as senior incumbent at Amaravati
Buddhist Monastery in Hertfordshire.
