Karma
Through right practice, you allow your old karma to wear itself
out. Knowing how things arise and pass away,
you can just be aware and let them run their course. It is like having two trees: If you fertilize
and water one, and do not take care of the other, there is no question which
one will grow, and which one will die.
Meditation Practice
Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is
practice. If you think this way, then
quickly change your thinking. Steady
practice is being mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing,
or lying down. When coming out of
sitting, don’t think that you are coming out of meditation, but that you are
only changing postures. If you reflect
in this way, you will have peace.
Wherever you are, you will have peace.
Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you
constantly. You will have a steady
awareness within yourself.
I travel all over, looking for a place to meditate. I didn’t realize it was there in my
heart/mind. All meditation is inside
you. Birth, old age, sickness, and death
are right there within you. I traveled
all over until I dropped dead from exhaustion.
Only then, when I stopped, did I find what I was looking for: inside me.
We practice meditation to learn letting go, not to increase
our holding on to things. Enlightenment
appears when you stop wanting anything.
Virtue/precepts, concentration/meditation, and wisdom make
up the heart of Buddhist practice. …It’s
like a log of wood cut into three sections, but it’s only one log.
Birth and death
In the language of the mind (Dhamma), there are no such
things as birth and death.
Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go…Be just as
you are-no holding on, no attachment.
Free.
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