We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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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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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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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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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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