Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
AJAHN CHAHIf we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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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.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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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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