é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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To walk on the Bodhisattva's path is to light up inner compassion, to persistently reject ill thoughts and to keep right ones.
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When praised, you don't feel delighted but only think that it is your job. When insulted, you don't feel angry - your mind has reached the tranquil state if it can be so stable that it won't bear an ill thought in any situations.
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So many veils and illusions separate us from the stark knowledge that we are dying. When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. -
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In pleasant situations, do control your mind so you won't be seduced by lust and fun. In adverse situations, do manage your mind so you won't be affected by defeats.
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The karmic winds produced from ignorance of all beings bring unceasing disastrous waves to the world. The only way to restoration and purification is purified human minds.
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Greed, anger and ignorance are virus in human minds. The most dreadful is ignorance, i.e., lack of knowledge and comprehension. Once ignorance is removed, anger can be managed and greed be cleared.
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Buddhist dharma is not for us to recite with our mouths, but to do with our hands and walk with our legs. To realize dharma is to devote oneself for those who in suffer. -
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“Peace within oneself is to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.”
- Ajahn Chah,
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