é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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Where does suffering come from? It starts from a single thought of ignorance, which reproduces many bad causes and then painful effects.
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“Alert, alert; yet relax, relax. This is a crucial point for the View in meditation.”
Alert your alertness, but at the same time be relaxed, so relaxed in fact that you don’t even hold onto an idea of relaxation. -
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One should cultivate a good temper inside, and maintain a good environment outside.
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Real relaxation is about the mindset - To bear no vexation and worries on one’s mind.
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It is not very hard to practice spiritual cultivation until a person fails to maintain a consistent mind.
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With precepts in mind, peace and ease stand behind everything we do. -
We often wonder: “How will I be when I die?” The answer to that is that whatever state of mind we are in now, whatever kind of person we are now, that’s what we will be like at the moment of death, if we do not change. This is why it is so absolutely important to use this lifetime to purify our mindstream, and so our basic being and character, while we can.
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When vexation cannot cling to our minds, we can be physically busy but mentally easy. -
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Each time the losses and deceptions of life teach us about impermanence, they bring us closer to the truth. When you fall from a great height, there is only one possible place to land: on the ground—the ground of truth. And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Life is like a play. When karma comes, it will play something totally outside our expectation.
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胜者招怨�，败者生苦�，寂者�胜负，安�寂��。
Victory gives rise to hate,
those defeated lie in pain,
happily rest the Peaceful
surrendering victory-defeat.
Explanation: Victory brings hatred into being. The defeated person lives in misery. But the person, whose mind is calm and tranquil, lives happily as he has risen above both victory and defeat.
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Switch on the television or glance at the newspaper: You will see death everywhere. Yet, did the victims of those plane crashes and car accidents expect to die? They took life for granted, as we do. How often do we hear stories of people whom we know, or even friends, who died unexpectedly? We don’t even have to be ill to die: Our bodies can suddenly break down and go out of order, just like our cars. We can be quite well one day, then fall sick and die the next. -
"Our Real Home is Inner Peace".....
Anyone can build a house of wood and bricks, but the Buddha taught that that sort of home is not our real home; it’s only nominally ours. It is a home in the world and it follows the ways of the world. Our Real Home Is Inner Peace.
An external, material home may well be pretty but it is not very peaceful
(The First Noble Truth).
There’s this worry and then that, this anxiety and then that. So we say it is not our real home, it is external to us. Sooner or later we’ll have to give it up. It’s not a place we can live in permanently because it doesn’t truly belong to us, it’s part of the world.
- Ajahn Chah
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