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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2021.09.21 | In this talk, Ajahn Anan tells the story of Lady Uttarā and Lady Sirimā, and how it is possible to go from a heart afflicted by very strong, painful emotions to seeing the Dhamma.
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2021.09.19 | The mind that sees the truth enters into the stream of Dhamma, a stream which is cool and peaceful. One disciple during the Buddha’s time, upon receiving a teaching from Venerable Ananda, saw that he must die and separate from all his material possessions. His mind gathered together and cut the first three fetters. If we practise ourselves, it is not beyond our ability to enter the stream of Dhamma.
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In this talk, Ajahn Anan explains to us the many ways we can build goodness, including generosity, virtue, meditation and humility. As this merit grows in our hearts, so too does our joy and vitality. It gives us an energy that propels us along the Noble Path.
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