A student came to complain to Ajaan Fuang that she had been meditating for years, and still hadn’t gotten anything out of it.
His immediate response: “You don’t meditate to ‘get’ anything. You meditate to let go.”
~Ajahn Ṭhānissaro
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The senior venerable Mahākoṭṭhita said this:
Calm and still,
thoughtful in counsel, not restless—
he shakes off bad qualities
as the gale shakes leaves off a tree.
~Thag1.2
Skillful reflection can give rise to an immediate feeling of well-being in our heart, ...
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The affluent and the wealthy,
even the aristocrats who rule the land,
Hiri ottappa are two words. Hiri means...
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In the Jaṭā Sutta, the Buddha is asked this question:
“Tangled within, tangled without:
these people are tangled in tangles.
I ask you this, Gotama:
who can untangle this tangle?”
We tend to just react and take it for granted that all the ‘I am’ and ‘I am not’ is the truth. We create ourselves as a personality and attach to our memories. We remember...
Whoever is a drunkard, broke, and destitute,
Dragged by thirst from bar to bar,
Sinking into debt like a stone in water
Into bewilderment quickly plunges.
~DN31
The senior Venerable Revata the Doubter said this:
See this wisdom of the Realized Ones!
Like a fire blazing in the night,
giving light, giving vision,
they dispel the doubt of those who’ve come.
~Thag1.3
Once, when one of Ajaan Fuang’s students was being pressured by her parents to look for a husband so that she could...
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When sleeping late becomes a habit
And night is seen as time to rise,
For one perpetually intoxicated,
A home life cannot be maintained.
~DN31
The true nourishment we get from things is the joy we feel from being able to give them away.
~Ajahn Lee
Question: What is the best way to deal with stress?
Answer: Given our responsibilities and the pressures upon us, feeling a certain amount of stress is probably inevitable.
It is not always a bad thing, and hard to imagine how making positive changes in our life, abandoning ...
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Truly, an evil deed committed
does not immediately bear fruit,
like milk that does not turn sour all at once.
But smoldering, it follows the fool
like fire covered by ashes.
~Dhammapada 71
Once we appreciate these (the Buddha's) teachings as ways for reflecting on attachments, there’s no need to hold on to a view of having become something or having not become anything.
~Ajahn Sumedho
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger...
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In the Cakka Sutta, the Buddha says:
Bhikkhus, there are these four wheels. When these four wheels turn,...
In the beginning of the path, as you’re developing your virtue, you focus on these three perceptions...
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As a single slab of rock
won't budge in the wind,
so the wise are not moved
by praise,
by blame.
~Dhammapada 81
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Ven. Koṇḍañña, the senior monk who was awakened right after the Buddha, said this:
My confidence grew
as I heard the teaching, so full of flavor.
Dispassion is what was taught,
without any grasping at all.
Vihāra is an experimental Buddhist monastery: a federated hub representing the activities of a Buddhist monastery in the Himalayan Vajrayāna/Mahāyāna lineages.
