Ajahn Sujato (Ajahn Sujato) is an Australian monk. He left his successful musical career in 1994 to ordain in the Thai forest tradition of Ajahn Chah. In addition to many years spent in forest monasteries and remote hermitages in Thailand, he lived for over a year in a cave in Malaysia and served for 3 years at Bodhinyana Monastery (Perth) as secretary of the Ajahna Brahm.

He combined his love of meditation with his study of the Dhamma and published his first book, A Swift Pair of Messengers, in 2001. It is a compilation of passages from the suttas on the theme of stillness and insight. He has since published a number of books. He studies and teaches Buddhist texts from both comparative and historical perspectives.

In 2003, he founded the Santi Forest Monastery. He served there as head abbot until 2012. He is currently based at Bodhinayana Monastery, where he is actively involved in the Sutta Central project. He teaches in Australia and around the world. His teachers have spoken of meditation as follows: the disciple stills the mind, which leads to clarity, which leads to insight, which helps to calm the mind, which stills the mind, which leads to insight, which helps to calm the mind…..These two aspects (calmness and insight) are constantly working together.

In other words, insight revolves around jhana and jhana revolves around insight. This is the true path to nibbāna of which the Perfect One said: “For one who indulges in jhāna, four results can be expected: stream-entry, one return, non-return, or final deliverance” (Pásádika-sutta, Dígha-nikaya).