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Kindness, or non-aversion, begins with empathy, the sense that we’re all in this same samsāric ocean together, struggling in the floods.
~Ajahn Sucitto

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As Buddhist practitioners, we bind ourselves to the Buddha’s teachings. This means that not only do you remember the Buddha’s teachings and have confidence in them,...

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... but you apply them to your life.
Liberation comes from putting the Buddha’s recommendations into practice and observing for ourselves the results that this brings.
Our faith in the Buddha’s path of awakening deepens as we practice and realize that the Buddha’s teachings are not just intellectually or philosophically significant, but they have enormous practical value within the ordinary day-to-day living of our lives.
~Ajahn Viradhammo

BDG on YouTube: Dharma Sharing: Ven. Yin Kit on Mindfulness (Part 3 of 3)

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One of my teachers ate very fast. He made noises as he ate.

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Yet he told us to eat slowly and mindfully. I used to watch him and get very upset. I suffered, but he didn’t! I watched the outside.
Later I learned: some people drive very fast but carefully; others drive slowly and have many accidents.
Don’t cling to rules, to outer form. If you watch others at most ten percent of the time and watch yourself ninety percent of the time, your practice is okay.
~Ven. Ajahn Chah

Whenever you get the sense of ‘not enough,’ ask ‘When has it been “enough”? And when will it be?’
~Ajahn Sucitto

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BDG on YouTube: The Heart Sutra with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 9)

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We all have past merit and that is why...

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So, for the Buddha, genuine compassion has to be based on truthfulness. It’s easy to see why.

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People who claim to act on compassionate motives but don’t see the importance of being truthful lack a basic ingredient in social conscience: the respect and gratitude implicit in a felt obligation to tell the truth to everyone, regardless of how you feel about them.
When people lack this ingredient in their conscience, it’s easy for them to claim compassionate motives when actually causing harm—and hard for them to take an interest in learning about that harm and changing their ways.
Their compassion is compassion without accountability, a dangerous and deluded combination. Although their intentions may be good, they’re not necessarily skillful. Their lack of skill can get in the way of following the path.
~Ajahn Ṭhānissaro

Enlightenment involves derailing and deconstructing the sense of lack. It is getting rid of that piece of psychology that in every moment says,...

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‘There’s something else that I should be having right now. There’s something else that I should be right now. There’s somewhere else that I could go right now. There’s somebody else who’s got it better than me right now. I’m not complete right now. I need to be something right now.’
Enlightenment comes when we are free of that...
~Ajahn Sucitto

BDG on YouTube: Dharma Sharing: Ven. Yin Kit on Mindfulness (Part 2 of 3)

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Question: I find the people in my family becoming rather resentful about my interest in Buddhism and meditation.

Ajahn Sumedho: It can be very frustrating for others who don’t understand what you’re doing.

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People want you to reaffirm their lives, so if you stop drinking, smoking, and eating meat, for example, that can be very frightening.
And then you might meditate rather than sit watching television. This is a problem because families could feel very threatened; they want your participation, then they feel everything is all right, ‘She’s doing what we’re doing and we understand her when she’s doing what we’re doing.’ When you’re not doing what they’re doing, then, ‘What’s she doing? Is she going senile? Is she losing it?’
I’ve found also, though, with so many people, that in the long run and in troubled times — especially when somebody dies or something like that — the family will probably come to you.
That’s when they need you and you will have something to offer that will help them that they wouldn’t have had if you had just gone along with them.
~Ajahn Sumedho

“Cessation” is an important word in Buddhism, and it’s one that I like to define as the fading away of the sense of self. The sense of self fades away when we don’t attach to an experience. Cessation occurs when we learn to look at experience objectively.
~Ajahn Viradhammo

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BDG on YouTube: The Heart Sutra with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 8)

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BDG on YouTube: Dharma Sharing: Ven. Yin Kit on Mindfulness (Part 1 of 3)

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BDG on YouTube: What the Buddha Taught: Dharma Sharing with Ven. Yin Kit (Part 7)

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BDG on YouTube: The Heart Sutra with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 7)

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