Right Attitude
23 Points of Practice — Guided Instructions
Sayadaw U Tejaniya
Sayadaw U Tejaniya — the Burmese forest-monk whose teaching on awareness-of-mind has quietly become one of the most influential Theravada styles of the 21st century — gives his foundational 'Right Attitude' instructions: 23 short, koan-like points that reframe the entire posture of the meditator. 'Meditation is not about creating peaceful states; it is about knowing what is happening, with the right attitude.' His framework has become the operating system of an enormous slice of contemporary Western Insight practice.
The foundational framework for Tejaniya-style awareness practice — one of the most quietly influential Theravada methods of our century.
The sangha responds.
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The Mindful Way
BBC archive footage of Ajahn Chah at Wat Pah Pong
The only widely-circulated film footage of Ajahn Chah, captured by the BBC in 1979 at Wat Pah Pong as part of a documentary on Theravada renunciate life. He is filmed in conversation with Western disciples, walking the forest, instructing monks, and teaching with the wry, exacting plainness that became the signature of the Thai Forest tradition. For an entire lineage that grew explosively after his death — Ajahn Sumedho, Ajahn Brahm, Ajahn Pasanno, Ajahn Amaro, the entire Amaravati and Abhayagiri sanghas — this footage is the one moving image of the source.
Four Ways of Letting Go
Recorded at Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia, Ajahn Brahm's 'Four Ways of Letting Go' has crossed 2.5 million views and become — by any measure — the most-viewed English-language dhamma talk ever uploaded. Brahm walks through four progressively deeper releases: the body, the senses, thought, and finally the knower itself. He does it the way only he can — with the disarming jokes, the British timing, the absolute precision underneath. It is the talk that has converted more people to sitting meditation in the streaming era than any other.
The Sound of Silence
Ajahn Sumedho — the senior Western disciple of Ajahn Chah and the founding abbot of Amaravati — opens up his signature method. The 'sound of silence' or 'nada' is not a sound the meditator makes but one the meditator notices: a continuous high-frequency inner hum that the mind, when quiet enough, can rest in. Sumedho turns it into a complete awareness practice, one that is portable, durable, and remarkably accessible. For three decades it has been the practice that holds the Forest sangha's English-speaking lay community.