If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
AJAHN CHAHYou 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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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end 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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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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