Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
AJAHN CHAHAll religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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