Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAHWhen 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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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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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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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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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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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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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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