Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
AJAHN CHAHIf you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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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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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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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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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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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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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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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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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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