The heart of the path is quite easy.
AJAHN CHAHDifficult 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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never 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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