Dukkha is the state of being unable to endure. The state of being unable to endure means everything is in a constant state of change. This is a permanent truth: everything changes.
~Ven. Ajahn Anan

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Once we’ve suffered enough, we might one day realize: “This really hurts. I’ve had enough of this.” That’s the first step towards peace, towards enlightenment.
~Ajahn Viradhammo

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Suppose that not far from a town or village, there was a large grove of sal trees that was choked with castor-oil weeds.

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While you’re on the path, you have to hold to it. This is part of the message of the simile of the raft ...

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The highest fruition of merit is identical with the culmination of the Buddhist holy life itself—

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The fruit of stream-entry is better
than being the one king of the earth,
than going to heaven,
than lordship over all the world.
~Dhammapada 178

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Ajahn Liem advises us to practice for the sake of practicing. In other words, ...

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Purifying virtue is not so much about getting the legal description of the precepts and then seeing how much one has to do and how much one can get away with. It’s more about approaching the precepts from ...

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Only rarely is there a man in this world who, restrained by modesty, avoids reproach, as a thoroughbred horse avoids the whip.
~Dhammapada 143

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We suffer so much because ...

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The nature of the Middle Way is that if there is a need for us to engage or to use our imagination, our energy, our capacity, then we do, but we don’t have to do that in order to feel a sense of value.
~Ajahn Amaro

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Speak the truth; yield not to anger; when asked, give, even if you only have a little. By these three means can one reach the presence of the gods.
~Dhammapada 224

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If you’re used to hearing a teaching in one way ...

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The reason why the Dhamma teachings have survived is because the Buddha worked really hard ...

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