The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.
AJAHN SUMEDHO
It’s an effulgence of the mind. It’s a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It’s an ability to accept life as it is.
More Ajahn Sumedho Quotes
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The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside – put it down gently without any kind of aversion. Then I can pick it up again, see what time it is and lay it aside when necessary.
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The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed.
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Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.
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The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we no longer seek it as an end in itself.
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Whatever you think you are, that’s not what you are.
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The empty mind – the pure mind – is not a blank, zero-land, where you’re not feeling or caring about anything.
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A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.
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It’s an effulgence of the mind. It’s a brightness that is truly sensitive and accepting. It’s an ability to accept life as it is.
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Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task to create an ideal. It’s our task to see how it is, and to learn from the world as it is. For the awakening of the heart, conditions are always good enough.
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Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.
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When we accept life as it is, we can respond appropriately to the way we’re experiencing it, rather than just reacting out of fear and aversion.
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We no longer demand that sensory consciousness be anything other than an existing condition that we can use skillfully according to time and place.
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One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.
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We no longer expect the sensory world to satisfy us.
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I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.
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