"Studying [Buddhist sutras and] non-Buddhists books is not as good as being totally illiterate and practicing Buddha-remembrance."
Last Updated on Saturday, 21 January 2012 22:23
Meditation isn't a one-way street—you can’t just meditate and your life will get better. You have to change the way you live to improve your meditation. Thanissaro Bhikkhu outlines five principles of the ethical, restrained life conducive to meditation practice.
Last Updated on Friday, 24 September 2010 13:09
Chúc Thanh translates into English Read in Vietnamese
Being too busy makes us feel trapped and unhappy. It also diminishes our daily social skills and suffocates our knowledge…
“If there was only one day left to live our life
We would suddenly realize how beautiful life is.
When we are so hurried in our daily lives
We have no peace when we’re leaving…”
Meditation comes alive through a growing capacity to release our habitual entanglement in the stories and plans, conflicts and worries that make up the small sense of self, and to rest in awareness. In meditation we do this simply by acknowledging the moment-to-moment changing conditions—the pleasure and pain, the praise and blame, the litany of ideas and expectations that arise. Without identifying with them, we can rest in the awareness itself, beyond conditions, and experience what my teacher Ajahn Chah called jai pongsai, our natural lightness of heart. Developing this capacity to rest in awareness nourishes samadhi (concentration), which stabilizes and clarifies the mind, and prajna (wisdom), that sees things as they are.
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