..续本文上一页to get here. Then we have these people who live just outside the walls of the monastery but who have yet to enter through its gate. It makes you appreciate good kamma more, doesn”t it
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When you do something bad, there is nowhere you can go to hide. Even if others don”t see you, you must see yourself. Even if you go into a deep hole, you”ll still find yourself there. There”s no way you can commit bad actions and get away with it. In the same way, why shouldn”t you see your own purity
You see it all - the peace, the agitation, the liberation, the bondage; you see all these for yourself.
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Meditation Practice
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If you want to be around to meet the future Buddha, then just don”t practice. You”ll probably be around long enough to see him when he comes.
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I”ve heard people say, "Oh, this year was a bad year for me." "How come
" I ask them. "I was sick all year," they reply. "I couldn”t practice at all." Oh! If they don”t practice when death is near, when will they ever practice
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I”ve already laid down the schedule and rules of the monastery. Don”t transgress the existing standards. Anyone who does is not one who has come with a real intention to practice. What can such a person ever hope to see
Even if he slept near me every day, he wouldn”t see me. Even if he slept near the Buddha, he wouldn”t see the Buddha, if he didn”t practice.
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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. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don”t think that you”re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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"As long as I have still not attained Supreme Enlightenment, I will not rise from this place, even if my blood dries up." Reading this in the books, you may think of trying it yourself. You”ll do it like the Buddha. But you haven”t considered that your car is only a small one. The Buddha”s car was a really big one. He could do it all at once. With only your tiny, little car, how can you possibly take it all at once
It”s a different story altogether.
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I went all over looking for places to meditate. I didn”t realize it was already there, in my heart. All the meditation is right there inside you. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are right there within you. I traveled all over until I was ready to drop dead from exhaustion. Only then, when I stopped, did I find what I was looking for … inside me.
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We don”t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Don”t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don”t rise or all with them. What”s so great about brightness
My flashlight has it. It can”t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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You”re blind and deaf without meditation. Dhamma isn”t easily seen. You must meditate to see what you”ve never seen. Were you born a teacher
No. You must study first. A lemon is sour only when you have tasted it.
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When sitting in meditation, say, "That”s not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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When we are lazy we should practice and not only when we feel energetic or in the mood. This is practicing according to the Buddha”s teaching. According to our own, we practice only when we”re feeling good. How are we going to get any…
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