Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
AJAHN CHAHPracticing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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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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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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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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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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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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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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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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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