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“Don’t think that you were born to gain this or that level of comfort. You were born to study pain and the causes of pain, and to follow the practice that frees you from pain. This is the most important thing there is. Everything else is trivial and unimportant. All that’s important lies with the practice.”
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
“Pain is always present in this conglomerate of body and mind. It’s here for us to see with every moment. If we contemplate it till we know all its details, we can then make it our sport to see pain as a natural condition and not our pain. This is something we have to research so as to get to the details: that it’s not our pain, it’s the pain of the aggregates [form, feeling, perception, thought-fabrications, and consciousness]. Knowing in this way means that we can separate out the properties of physical form and mind—to see how they interact, how they change. It’s really fascinating”
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
“Don’t go searching for the Dhamma outside, for it lies within. Peace lies within, but we have to contemplate so that we’re aware all around—subtly, deep down.”
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
“We can see the mind as a lotus. Some lotuses are still stuck in the mud, some have climbed above the mud but are still underwater, some have reached the surface, while others are open in the sun, stain-free. Which lotus do you choose to be? If you find yourself below the surface, watch out for the bites of fishes and turtles.”
― A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
― A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah
“If the mind can stay with itself and not go out looking for things to criticize or latch onto, it can maintain a natural form of stillness. So this is something we have to try for in our every activity. Keep your conversations to a minimum, and there won’t be a whole lot of issues. Keep watch right at the mind. When you keep watch with continuous mindfulness, your senses stay restrained. Being mindful in this way is something you have to work at. Try it and see. Can you keep this sort of awareness continuous? What sort of things can still get the mind engaged? What sorts of thoughts and labels of good and bad, me and mine, does it think up? Then look to see if these things arise and disband.”
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
― Pure and Simple: The Extraordinary Teachings of a Thai Buddhist Laywoman
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