The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
AJAHN CHAHThe only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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