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?
AJAHN CHAHSee 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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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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 Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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