2021.09.29 | Similar to how the immune system can be trained to protect the body from disease, we can teach and train our minds to be protected from arammanas – sense impressions. We all want happiness and do not want suffering, so we use our faith in the Triple Gem to follow the Buddha’s teachings to realize freedom from all stress.
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In the beginning of our practice it’s important to listen to a lot of teachings from the wise. They can help to steer us in the right direction, and through this we can realize within ourselves the validity of their words.
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2021.09.28 | It’s common these days for people to demand equality, but all beings have their own kamma, and this causes us to be different. But, no matter who we are or what situation we are in, we all have the capability to create new good kamma and grow in merit, mindfulness and wisdom.
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2021.09.27 | In order to reach peace, firstly we must cultivate it in our body and speech, making sure our external actions are virtuous. Upon this foundation of sīla, we then go about cultivating inner peace through samādhi and wisdom.
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2021.09.26 | We experience heaven in the present through skillful acts and hell in the present through unskillful acts. We are not sure when sickness and death will arrive. Therefore we should establish ourselves firmly in heedfulness.
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No matter who we are, no matter what position we hold in the world, death is steadily closing in on us. By realizing this, energy arises to walk the path that will lead us to the end of death and towards the birth of an inner Buddha in our hearts.
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2021.09.25 | We have the goal of reaching Nibbāna—the end of all suffering—but, how do we get there? We must use this life to cultivate goodness and develop the wisdom that allows us to let go of all things.
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2021.09.23 | Greed, aversion, and delusion are heat in the heart. Practising the path of sila, samadhi, and panya gives rise to coolness in the heart. We practise patient endurance. We reflect: why get angry when all of our lives must end in death? We cut off heat/unskillfulness, give rise to coolness/goodness, and bring the mind to purity.
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As we progress along this path of practice—being generous, keeping good virtue, and meditating—we’ll get the feeling that heaven is close by. And that’s because it is—the inner heaven is the happiness we feel from all the goodness we have created.
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2021.09.22 | When we are generous and virtuous without expecting anything in return, what we gain is inner wealth, happiness and emptiness. So, we shouldn’t desire any plane of birth or state of becoming, but set our hearts on the highest happiness instead: Nibbāna.
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