Fading away is said to be the best of all things whether conditioned or unconditioned ...
Sadness is actually not depressing. We can become depressed by wanting it to be otherwise, ...
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Right Effort involves work. It’s a steering of the mind. You are recognizing the unwholesome, letting it go, recognizing the wholesome and feeding it, maintaining it, keeping it in being – there is work going on. The Eightfold Path is a path of action.
~Ajahn Amaro
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Buddhist Romanticism is a result of a very natural human tendency: When presented with something foreign and new, people tend to see it ...
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If one shows oneself in one way
While actually being otherwise,
What one enjoys is obtained by theft
Like the gains of a cheating gambler.
~SN1.35
People want to go to Nibbāna but when you tell them that there is nothing there, they begin to have second thoughts. But ...
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A meditation session is the time to put down for a while all of our identities: ...
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‘All that is mine, beloved and pleasing, will become otherwise, will become separated from me.’
True or false?
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In the Tatiyavagga, the Buddha says:
One person, mendicants, arises in the world for the hurt and unhappiness of the people, ...
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What is the mind?
The mind doesn’t have any form. That which receives impressions, ...
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When there’s physical birth, notice how it makes us seem separate. We’re not physically joined to each other, are we? ...
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Long is the night to the sleepless;
long is the league to the weary.
Long is worldly existence to fools
who know not the Sublime Truth.
~Dhammapada 60
Our teacher, Ajahn Chah, taught us to practice with integrity. It means doing the right thing, whether you are alone or with others. You know what you do, even if no one else sees you.
~Ajahn Kalyano
Mindfulness is the factor that takes up a reference point — such as body or feeling — then surveys it and refers to unbiased awareness:
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