é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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THE WISDOM of Ajahn Chah...
Know and Watch Your Heart. It's Pure, but emotions come to colour it.
... So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and Investigate Them Before You React.
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
- Ajahn Chah -
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Words of Venerable Master Hsing Yun
Although the Amitabha Sutra talks about living with material wealth,
It encourages one to practice the Dharma at the same time;
When the Diamond Sutra discusses how “the mind should act without any attachments,”
It is not asking us to give up what we possess,
Instead it is emphasizing the importance of the middle path.
The middle path that avoids the extremes of pain and joy,
Is the true way to lead a Buddhist lifestyle.
- Humanistic Buddhism Series‧Buddhism and Living‧Buddhism and Living (2)28/2
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All bodies are composed of the four elements of earth, water, wind and fire. When they come together and form a body we say it’s a male, a female, giving it names, and so on, so that we can identify each other more easily. But actually there isn’t anyone there - only earth, water, wind and fire. Don’t get excited over it or infatuated by it. If you really look into it, you will not find anyone there.
- Ajahn Chah
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A young Western monk had just arrived at one of Ajahn Chah's forest monasteries and asked permission to stay and practice.
I hope you're not afraid of suffering" was Ajahn Chah's first response.
Somewhat taken aback, the young Westerner explained that he did not come to suffer but to learn meditation and to live peacefully in the forest.
Ajahn Chah explained, ''There are two kinds of suffering: the suffering that leads to more suffering and the suffering that leads to the end of suffering. If you are not willing to face the second kind of suffering, you will surely continue to experience the first."
Ajahn Chah's way of teaching is usually straightforward and direct. When he meets his monks on the monastery grounds, he often asks, "Are you suffering much today?" If one answers yes, he replies, 'Well, you must have many attachments today," and then laughs with the monk about it.
Have you ever had happiness? Have you ever had suffering? Have you ever considered which of these is really valuable? If happiness is true, then it should not dissolve, should it? You should study this point to see what is real, what is true. This study, this meditation, leads to right understanding.
- A Still Forest Pool
Teaching of Ajahn Chah -
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