We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
AJAHN CHAHIn cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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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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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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