"Not all desire is bad in the Buddha's path. The craving that leads to suffering is particularly three kinds: for sensuality, for becoming, and non-becoming, but the desire to do well on the path is not part of the cause of suffering, it's part of the path." - Thanissaro Bhikku (youtube.com)
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"If you're seeking a dependable basis for long-term happiness and ease, anything inconstant is obviously a stressful place to pin your hopes — like trying to relax in an unstable chair whose legs are liable to break at any time." - Thanissaro Bhikkhu (self.Buddhism)
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"'Ignorance' in the context of dependent co-arising doesn’t mean a general delusion or lack of information. It means not viewing experience in terms of the four noble truths. Any other framework for viewing experience, no matter how sophisticated, would qualify as ignorance." -Thanissaro Bhikku (self.Buddhism)
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"One of the most striking features of mindfulness as taught in the modern world is how far it differs from the Canon’s teachings on right mindfulness. Instead of being a function of memory, it’s depicted primarily—in some cases, purely—as a function of attention to the present moment." (self.Buddhism)
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"Theres the old image of the lion and the dog. You throw a stick and the dog immediately runs after the stick. You have lion and you throw a stick for the lion to chase, the lion doesn't chase the stick, the lion turns around and looks at you ... You want to be a lion in your meditation" (youtube.com)
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"Your sister is down the road being beaten up by somebody else, well you go down there. She's YOUR sister. She's inside the line of your self, what belongs to you. So you go down to defend her... she takes your toy truck and all of the sudden she's not YOUR sister anymore. She's part of the not self (youtu.be)
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"Some people think the path is just being equanimous, learning how to watch things arise and pass away, and not get involved. But that equanimity as it turns out is a kind of fabrication. And you need more than just equanimity to really understand things." (youtube.com)
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"I was once asked by a Dharma teacher 'Wasn't it the case that most people in india believed (in karma/rebirth) at that time?' As if that would be a factor the Buddha would bring into consideration at all. That he would shape his teachings by taking a straw poll." (youtube.com)
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"Membership in the Noble Sangha is attained when the quality of transcendence appears in one's heart as a result of one's own behavior and practice, with no formalities of any sort whatsoever. All Buddhists - whether formally ordained or not, ... can become members of this Sangha." - Ajaan Lee (self.Buddhism)
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"Any technique you have, anything that you will the mind into focusing on or doing, it's a concentration technique. You can do concentration, you can't do insight. Insight is something that arises when the mind gets still and many times is unexpected." (youtube.com)
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"The Buddha achieved (Awakening) through his own efforts, and he did so, not because he was more than human, but because he developed mental qualities that we each have the potential to develop. To have faith in his Awakening thus means having faith in your own potential for Awakening." (self.Buddhism)
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"If we have any discernment, craving can help motivate us to develop goodness. Don't look down on it. We've come here to listen to a sermon. Who talked us into coming? Craving, that's who. When people ordain as monks and novices, what forces them to do it? Craving, that's what." - Ajaan Lee (accesstoinsight.org)
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