é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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~ THE WISDOM of Ajahn Chah ~
"SUBJECTION TO CHANGE AND PEACE "...
"Having come into this world you should contemplate the body's nature.
It is preparing to disappear. Can you see how all the different parts of your body are trying to slip away?
Take your hair: when you were young it was thick and black; now it is falling out. Your eyes used to be good and strong but now they're weak. When you were a child your teeth were healthy and firm; now they are wobbly, or you have false ones.
This is nature, the way things are.
When their time is up, conditions go their own way. It's an endless round of disturbances and trouble, pleasure and pain. There is no peace.
You need not worry about your body because it isn't your real home, it's only a temporary shelter; it's nominally yours.
Our real home is inner peace.
When we have not found our real home we're like aimless travelers out on the road, going here and there, stopping for a while and then setting off again. Until we find our real home we feel uneasy, just like a villager who has left his village. Only when he gets home can he relax in peace".
- Ajahn Chah
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"In all matters, follow affinity to be at ease.
In all matters, let go to feel relief."
-366 days with Wisdom
Venerable Master Hsing Yun
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"We want to know ourselves: "Who am I?"
We are nature, a physical and mental process that is happening at this point in time. We need to be like a scientist, researching ourselves: "Why am I so angry? Why am I so anxious and worried all the time?" Once you know, suffering becomes less and less."
~ Sayadaw U Tejaniya
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Question: If we can attain birth in the Pure Land through ten repetitions of the Buddha name, or even a single repetition, why do we need seven days of reciting the Buddha-name, as the Amitabha Sutra says?
Answer: If we have not done the work of reciting the Buddha-name singlemindedly for seven days during ordinary times, how can we reach the Pure Land through ten repetitions or a single repetition when we are on the brink of death?
It would be one chance in a million if someone who had committed many evils were to have a causal basis from past lives ripen as he was on the brink of death, enabling him to meet a spiritual friend, hear his teaching, and develop faith and vows. How could he be so lucky? [Master Tien J'us book] Doubts and Questions about the Pure Land has refuted this idea of waiting till death to practice Buddha recitation in great detail. People these days should read that book.
Mind-Seal of the Buddhas Patriarch Ou-i's Commentary on the Amitabha Sutra Translated by J.C. Cleary Foreword, Notes and Glossary by Van Hien Study Group -
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"A life with suffering and happiness is rich.
A life with success and failure is reasonable.
A life with gains and loss is fair.
A life with birth and death is natural."
-366 days with Wisdom
Venerable Master Hsing Yun
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