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“One of our human absurdities is the fact that we’re constantly thinking about either the future or the past.”
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“There’s no other way to learn to live each moment except through meditation.”
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“Mind can only be cleansed by mind. What the mind has put in there, the mind can take out.”
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“One second of concentration in meditation is one second of purification because, luckily, the mind can only do one thing at a time. ”
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“The great renunciation that arises in meditation is to drop all thoughts. When there’s nobody thinking, there’s no ego confirmation.”
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“The spiritual path is all about letting go. There is nothing to achieve or gain.”
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“The teaching of the Buddha is profound and extraordinary, and only a profound and extraordinary mind can actually understand the inner vision of what he meant. Therefore we need to train the mind toward that goal.”
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“The only time the mind can have a real rest is when it stops thinking and starts only experiencing. ”
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“We wouldn’t be very happy if we didn’t have a home for this body of ours. We are equally not very happy if we don’t have a home for the mind. That quiet, peaceful space is the mind’s home.”
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“When the ego stops wanting, it doesn’t need to think. When the ego stops wanting, all unsatisfactoriness vanishes.”
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“The minute you give it a label, you are stepping back to look at it.”
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“Unless you do that, you become the thinker and are totally distracted.”
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“Life keeps on happening and doesn’t need us to think about it.”
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“It’s constantly arising and ceasing every single moment.”
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“You learn to think what you want to think and when one learns that, one need never be unhappy again.”
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“Only a fool becomes voluntarily unhappy.”
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“From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. (This, by the way, is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.)”
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“Please become aware of the fact that this body does not have suffering, but that it is suffering.”
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“Only then can we begin to fathom the reality of human suffering.”
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“Work with the feelings and thoughts as they arise. Watch both of them being totally impermanent. They arise and disappear, so why do you call them yours? Have you asked them to come? Surely not. You really came to meditate, didn’t you? Yet there are all these thoughts. Do they belong to you? Isn’t that suffering?”
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“Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, nonself are the three characteristics to be found in all that exists.”
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“Unless we identify them within ourselves, we will never know what the Buddha taught.”
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“Meditation is the way to find out. The rest are just words. This is the action.”
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“The whole of the Buddha’s teachings are directed toward losing self. He said, “There is only one thing I teach / and that is suffering and its end to reach.”
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“It’s the same with this air around us. We don’t grab hold of it and say it’s ours, and yet if it wasn’t there we couldn’t live. It’s just there. Thoughts are like that.”
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“The thinking process is natural to the mind, and because we are alive the thinking process goes on and on, but it’s neither reliable nor believable.”
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“Just as the body wants to be fed, the mind does too.”
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“All the thoughts that you have had during the past hour, all have disappeared, haven’t they?”
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“We gain insight into impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and nonself through personal experience.”
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“The only opening leading out of that merry-go-round is to look at the feeling and not to react.”
(Antes: “It is a merry-go-round. It doesn’t have a doorway. We go around and around and around trying to keep the pleasant, trying to get rid of the unpleasant, a never-ending circle.”)
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“If we learn that in meditation, even for one moment, we can repeat it in daily living to great advantage.”
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“There is only attention to the feeling. ”
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“So when an unpleasant feeling arises in the body because of sitting still for longer than usual, don’t blame anything or anyone. There’s no one to blame for the feelings that arise. These are just feelings that arise and cease. Watch the feeling and know.”
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“Every moment can be used to gain insight and from that calm arises.”
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“A bit of insight creates a bit of calm.”
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“When we see that we don’t need to pay any attention to our thoughts, it becomes easier to drop them. When we see that we don’t have to react to feelings, it is much easier to drop the reaction.”
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“Calm and insight. Insight is the goal. Calm is the means.”
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“If you see a small child who has fallen off a bicycle and is crying, it will be natural to pick it up and console it. That’s loving-kindness, but not very difficult. The difficulty lies in generating that feeling in one’s heart toward all people”
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“The Dhamma has to be understood, digested, and lived.”
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“If we ourselves are loving, then we find innumerable loving people around, because everybody wants to be loved.”
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“The more love we can extend, the more people we can include in that love, and the more love we have.”
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“Whatever we can generate, that much we have within us.”
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“loving oneself does not mean indulging oneself”
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“The separation from each other is based on our ego concept.”
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“We only fear what we don’t like. We don’t fear what we love.”
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“ego only diminishes when we see with ruthless honesty what’s going on inside us”
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“First comes the feeling and then comes the reaction. Then the thinking process justifies the reaction.”
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“When the bell was rung everybody would come out, look in the direction of the person who was ringing the bell and say, “Well done. Well done.”
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“The Buddha said: “There is only one thing I teach and that is suffering and its end to reach.”
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“the crowning glory of all emotions: equanimity”
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“No matter what happens, it will all come to an end.”
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“Acceptance of things the way they are creates equanimity, and equanimity creates security in the heart.”
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“These four emotional states — the divine abidings — create security in the heart.”
Loving-kindness; compassion; Sympathetic Joy; Equanimity
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The four friends / the five hindrances
Nota: qué genio el Budha, siempre organizando todo para nuestra comprensión
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“Because we have our senses, because we are born with them, we want to feed them.”
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“Noble friends are like a chain reaction. We don’t only need to search for one. We can also be one.”
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“A worldling follows his or her inner nature, just the way it is. A noble one changes it.”
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“The only thing that we’re doing wrong is we’re always hoping for the wrong things. ”
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“We are always hoping that the situation is going to change”
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“It will take a while to be successful every time. But by practicing continually, it becomes a habit”
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“Nongreed is generosity and nonhate is loving-kindness”
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“Meditation has to fascinate one. Then there is no reason for the mind not to be alert.”
(Antes: “Sometimes we get so fascinated by a book we can stay up half the night and not get tired at all; we just sit there reading. Or we might go to a party and talk to others practically the whole night and not get tired because we’re interested and delighted”.)
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“the Buddha said, “The one who conquers a thousand times a thousand armies is as nothing compared to one who conquers him or herself.” Conquering oneself means conquering one’s natural inclinations and not letting the mind get away with them.”
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“Meditation has one object only, namely to prepare the mind to get out of all suffering, to prepare it for liberation.”
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“A clear direction brings the needed energy. One knows one’s path and destination. One can walk toward it with vigor. ”
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“When one has no destination, there’s no fascination, no interest. It’s difficult to find a clear destination in life”
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“To consider results is attachment and expectation.”
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“It’s impossible for us to know whether we are sick today because of doing something unskillful fifteen years ago, or because we didn’t watch what we ate yesterday.”
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“The truth is neither. What you have is a transference of energy. The heat has been transferred.”
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“ a transference of the heat of our passion for life. Our passionate desire for survival, which does not diminish until enlightenment.”
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“The heat of the passion is the transference of energy.”
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“There is kamma and there are results, but there is also personal choice.”
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“Our rebirth this very morning can bring us that feeling of urgency that is an important ingredient of the spiritual life. ”
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“Stiff with pride” is the way we express it. The stiffness shows in an inability to accept new ideas and outlooks. Pride is a viewpoint and anything new would endanger the foundation on which the pride rests. It’s very difficult for a proud person to learn something new. It’s common for such a person to say, “I know” without knowing.”
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“The way things are provides the conditions for my growth.” Contentment is essential for peace.”
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“There is a limit to how little we can get away with, but there’s no limit to how much we can desire.”
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“They are magicians because upon contact they immediately induce the mind to create repercussions.”
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“Calming the senses doesn’t mean not using the senses, neither does it mean suppressing desire. It means recognizing the senses”
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“Nazarudin, a great Sufi sage, once said, “Don’t try to become enlightened. Just discard all your views and opinions.” ”
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“Rightly so, because we are the only ones who can eventually change ourselves. That others will have the benefit of our love is a secondary consideration.”
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“The one who becomes master of his or her thoughts is the one who gains insight.”
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“Both lovingness and compassion are qualities of the heart, just as intelligence is a quality of the mind, and they can be cultivated. ”
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“Lovingness and compassion alone don’t produce insight. They smooth the waves of emotions.”
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“Insight, in Buddhist terminology, is always directed toward impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and nonself, either one of the three or all three.”
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“The defense of a viewpoint is an indication that it is not based on experience.”
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“Experience needs no defense.”
Nota: por eso debemos ser el Dharma, vivir el Dharma y ser un Dharma viviente.
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“Other people have other viewpoints. The only answer to that is: “May they live long and happily.” ”
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“Attachment to one’s own viewpoint only shows that one hasn’t yet grasped impermanence.”
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“Nothing needs to be achieved, accomplished, or changed. All is as it is.”
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“In absolute reality, there’s none of that. There are physical manifestations of mind-made objects. That’s all.”
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“Nothing — just manifestations that are constantly changing.”
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“It just does what is necessary at each particular moment and then lets go.”
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“The ear, the sound and ear consciousness together produce hearing”
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“We have to understand that there is no individual who owns body, feeling, perception, thought, and consciousness. That is the most difficult aspect of the Buddha’s teaching. Difficult to conceptualize and even more difficult to experience.”
Tenemos que entender que no hay ningún individuo que posea cuerpo, sentimiento, percepción, pensamiento y conciencia. Ese es el aspecto más difícil de la enseñanza del Buda. Difícil de conceptualizar y aún más difícil de experimentar.
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Sabemos que este soy "yo" con cuerpo y sentimiento, percepción y pensamiento y conciencia sensorial. Así que tenemos que trabajar con eso y purificar nuestras emociones para llegar al punto en que sepamos que eso es todo lo que hay. Cuando no hay nadie allí, no podría haber un problema. Los problemas solo existen si hay alguien allí para tenerlos.
"Está la acción, pero no el hacedor. Está el sufrimiento, pero no el que sufre. Ahí está el camino, pero nadie quien pueda entrar en él. Y está liberación, pero nadie quien la alcance".
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“There is the deed, but no doer. There is suffering, but no sufferer. There is the path, but no one to enter it. And there is liberation, but no one to attain it.”
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“The ego likes to be entertained and reaffirmed constantly.”
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“by finding something to support it, such as talking, reading, daydreaming”
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“Renunciation is part of any spiritual path. It means letting go of our idea of who we are, or what we want to become, or what we want to have.”
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“To renounce this identification is a very important step: only if one stands alone can one actually practice the path. ”
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“Becoming isn’t useful, being is. That’s the ego down to manageable size again.”
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El Buda comparó la fe con un gigante ciego que conoce a un lisiado pequeño y agudo llamado sabiduría. Fe le dice a la sabiduría: "Soy muy fuerte, pero no puedo ver a dónde voy. Y eres muy débil, pero tienes muy buenos ojos. Ven y cabalga sobre mis hombros. Juntos llegaremos lejos".
La fe ciega puede mover montañas, pero desafortunadamente no sabe qué montaña mover. La sabiduría es absolutamente esencial para señalar el camino. Tiene el ojo agudo de la visión interior.
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La sabiduría es un factor interesante porque no es algo que podamos aprender, sino que surge de la purificación interna.
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“The most effective of faiths is faith in one’s own ability to reach the highest state.”
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“In addition to that, faith may arise that one has found the right path. Here it means unshakable faith in the Dhamma together with sharp-eyed wisdom.”
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“To meditate takes a surprising amount of mental energy: the only energy in this universe.”
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“Everything physical is an outcome of mental energy.”
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What is absolutely natural to us — that which comes so easily — is what we need to transcend.
Nota: “trascender” todo aquello que nos parece “natural” esa es la relación al budismo como la práctica del “ir en contra de la corriente”. Es decir: sentarnos a ser nadie cuando “supuestamente” debemos ser “alguien”, sentarnos a “hacer nada” cuando este mundo nos enseña constantemente que “debemos ser productivos”.
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“To overcome our natural way of living and reacting as a worldling needs a lot of energy.”
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Necesitamos energía para cualquier cosa que hagamos. La determinación nos hace empezar, pero la energía nos mantiene en marcha. Solo si conocemos nuestra dirección podremos mantenerla sin marcarla. Las personas que son capaces de hacerlo generalmente logran mucho más que otras y son muy admiradas. Esto no es nada de lo que maravillarse. Estas son personas con energía bien dirigida.
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“Impatience shows up the ego because we want things to happen the way we have planned them.”
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“The patient person is one who can see the overall event, that things change, move, and flow.”
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“What seems so terrible today may seem quite all right tomorrow or next month or next year.”
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“because all is impermanent, unsatisfactory, and substanceless”
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“We need patience with ourselves. Without it we’re not going to have patience with anybody else.”
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“If we get impatient with ourselves, we lack appreciation of ourselves.”
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“While accepting what is going on and seeing it as the flux and the flow, still to have the determination and the energy to redirect oneself into upward growth.”
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“It is very difficult to see ourselves as others see us. We have to put a mirror in front of ourselves, not to see our physical shape, but to see our mental and emotional makeup. This mirror is called mindfulness.”
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“It is unfortunate that the young person doesn’t have enough wisdom yet to really see the truth and the older person, who could have wisdom and experience, no longer has the energy.”
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“Equanimity is the crowning glory of all emotions.”
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“When he came out of this deep absorption, he could see the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path as an inner reality that left no residue.”
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“He never took a vehicle, because in those days vehicles were pulled by animals, and he would not burden an animal with his weight.”
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“During his forty-five years of teaching ministry, he walked everywhere. He never took a vehicle, because in those days vehicles were pulled by animals, and he would not burden an animal with his weight. Therefore, it is one of the rules for monks and nuns not to use an animal-drawn vehicle. We are lucky today, having other kinds of vehicles. The Buddha always walked.
He taught every day. That’s why such a wealth of material is available to us. In the original texts there exist over 17,500 discourses.”
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“The Dhamma is always in danger of disappearing because it goes against the grain of human instinct. It goes against the stream, against the current.”
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“Añña Kondañño was the first arahant and also the first Buddhist monk.”
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“He is an arahant but he is also the Buddha. The difference being that the Buddha found the four noble truths and the noble eightfold path by himself without any teacher, whereas the arahant became enlightened by following the Buddha.”
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“When the Buddha’s teaching is no longer in existence, then after many eons a new Buddha arises finding exactly the same four noble truths and the noble eightfold path by himself. The Buddha is one who is able to expound the Dhamma. This is said to be a rare gift. There are those who are called paccekabuddha. They are enlightened but they do not have the gift of teaching.”
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“We’re not so sure yet that this body not only has suffering but is suffering. In fact one can say that having this body is suffering. Just being burdened with a body of this kind is suffering. That doesn’t mean that we are constantly beset by tragedy. Tragedy is one thing, the truth of suffering is another. The Buddha said:
birth is suffering
decay is suffering
death is suffering
not getting what one wants is suffering
These are the main aspects, but then there are the others that arise between birth, decay, disease, and death.”
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“It exists even in pleasure because we can’t make pleasure last. ”
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“Pleasure vanishes just when we want to catch hold of it.”
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“Every time we want to keep it, it disappears, and we have to find it again.”
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“One can’t make it any younger even though many people try. All this effort, energy, money, and time is expended just to keep the body functioning.”
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“Its inherent nature of not listening to our pleas for youth, health, beauty, long life, but doing exactly the opposite, can certainly be regarded as suffering.”
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“The greatest suffering of the body is its many demands, which most people spend all their lives trying to satisfy.”
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“Most people spend a lot of time trying to get a little more comfort and satisfaction for the body. That seems to be the greatest suffering — to spend one’s life in this manner.”
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“The mind flits from one thought to another. The thinking process as such is suffering, even wholesome and skillful thoughts have an inherent disquiet in them. When there is thinking of any kind, there cannot be any real calm.”
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“The mind with its thinking and the body with its many parts are both suffering.”
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“We have three cravings and all others are connected with them.”
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“These three are craving for existence, craving for self-annihilation, and craving for sensual gratification.”
Estos tres anhelan la existencia, anhelan la aniquilación y anhelan la gratificación sensual.
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“The Buddha never really explained what liberation is. He did say what it is not. He knew it was not useful to explain it, because nobody who hadn’t experienced it would understand.”
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“The way to the cessation of all suffering, which is liberation or freedom, is the fourth noble truth, the noble eightfold path. This path, like all of the Buddha’s teachings, is divided into three parts: moral conduct, concentration, and wisdom.”
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“People often think that it has to go in that order, as if it were a ladder where the lowest rung of moral conduct makes it possible to get some concentration, which itself leads to insight and then wisdom.
The noble eightfold path proves this incorrect. It doesn’t start out with moral conduct. It starts out with wisdom.”
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“The noble eightfold path has to be looked upon not as a ladder, but as an eight-lane highway on which one has to use all lanes.”
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“It’s also a circular movement because it starts out and ends with right view.”
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“There is an empty spot in the heart that one constantly tries to fill with a person or several persons, an idea, a project, a hope. Nothing will fill it.”
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“Knowing that one can change is not enough; one also needs to change.”
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“We cannot eliminate problems, but we can eliminate our own reactions.”
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“We can also eventually come to the end of the path that culminates in the right view of self, namely nonself.”
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“Wisdom is needed to begin one’s spiritual discipline. Without having had the wisdom to know that something needed to be done, we would not have started our meditation practice.”
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“Self-confidence is not a feeling of superiority, but of independence. We have to work independently for our emancipation.”
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“Desire is always suffering because it only arises when there’s something missing that we want.”
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“There’s also the desire for being, being loved for instance. Or being a wife and mother, or being famous or being appreciated. Any desire is suffering and prevents one from feeling contented and peaceful. ”
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“The Buddha recommended that we get to know our internal and external world. This is mindfulness, being awake and aware.”
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“Right intention is our kamma-making process because our mental formations are having the intentions.”
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“Intentions are constantly arising with every action and reaction. “Kamma, O monks, I declare, is intention,” are the Buddha’s words.”
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Si sabes algo que sea hiriente y falso, no lo digas. Si sabes algo que sea útil pero falso, no lo digas. Si sabes algo que sea hiriente pero verdadero, tampoco lo digas. Finalmente, cuando encuentres algo que sea útil y cierto, espera el momento adecuado.
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“Speech is based on thoughts, and if we have any control over our thoughts, we learn to have control over our speech.”
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“Two people may actually say exactly the same thing, but their intentions are different, so their kamma will be different.”
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“The main reason for doing something is because it is needed at that time and one can fulfill a purpose. ”
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“Watching carefully and mindfully one becomes aware of one’s intentions and views.”
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“There is hardly anything that is comparable to work as a means for purification. Not just doing something to earn a living or because others expect it, but with one’s whole heart as a means of seeing clearly.”
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“Effort goes against our grain, because it seems to counteract comfort. ”
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“If we remember nothing else about the Buddha’s teaching but the four supreme efforts, that is enough.”
“They are worded like this: “Not to let an unwholesome thought arise, which has not yet arisen. Not to let an unwholesome thought continue, which has already arisen. To make a wholesome thought arise, which has not yet arisen. To make a wholesome thought continue, which has already arisen.”
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“Everything else that we remember may be uplifting, beautiful, and interesting, but these four are the practice of purification.”
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“The effort made is the good kamma, is the result.”
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“If one puts one’s foot down on the ground and knows nothing else except that the foot has been put down on the ground, that is mindfulness.”
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“Right mindfulness means that one is aware and attentive all the time.”
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Los cuatro fundamentos de la atención plena son:
la atención plena del cuerpo - sus acciones, sus movimientos, su aliento, sus treinta y dos partes, su esqueleto, su cadáver;
la atención plena del sentimiento - las sensaciones físicas o los sentimientos emocionales;
la atención plena del pensamiento - procesos de pensamiento, saber que el pensamiento está sucediendo, saber que la mente está funcionando, saber que hay un pensamiento, conocer el pensamiento; y el cuarto,
la atención plena de los objetos mentales - saber si el pensamiento es saludable o poco saludable.
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“Los cuatro fundamentos de la atención plena son:
la atención plena del cuerpo: sus acciones, sus movimientos, su respiración, sus treinta y dos partes, su esqueleto, su cadáver;
atención plena de los sentimientos: las sensaciones físicas o los sentimientos emocionales;
atención plena del pensamiento: procesos de pensamiento, saber que el pensamiento está en marcha, saber que la mente está funcionando, saber que hay un pensamiento, conocer el pensamiento; y el cuarto,
la atención plena de los objetos mentales, saber si el pensamiento es saludable o nocivo ".
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Cuerpo, sentimientos, procesos mentales y objetos de la mente.
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“If we forget about being mindful for those fifteen hours in the day, we might as well forget about meditating and about practicing the Buddha’s teaching. We are only paying lip service.”
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“When mindfulness is established as a practice, it eventually becomes a habit”
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“When mindfulness is practiced it doesn’t mean that we are submissive and react in the way others expect. That’s not mindfulness, that’s compliance.”
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“When we know that, we become aware of our reactions. We are not concerned with acting in accordance with expectations. We are concerned with the purification of ourselves.”
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“When we live with mindfulness there is a marked difference in our awareness. We know what’s happening with ourselves, but we don’t become involved in it.”
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“Right concentration needs all the other factors of the noble eightfold path as a base. Without moral conduct, right intention and right view, right effort and right mindfulness, it cannot arise. ”
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“Right view stands at the beginning because without it nothing happens. Right concentration stands at the end because it needs all the other factors in order to function and constitutes the means for achieving penetrating insight.”
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“We cannot find nonself. We cannot find what isn’t there. Therefore we can only constantly inquire into what we believe to be self. ”
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“Unless we have “self” fully in hand, are master of it, and have seen it fully, we will not be able to let go of it.”
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“The arahant has constant right view and right intention. There can be no wrong speech, wrong action, or wrong livelihood. There is always right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. With us, a little bit at a time. Only practice makes perfect.”
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“Our habitual thinking forms our character and directs us into spiritual endeavors and pathways.”
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“Concentration is a fragile achievement. It needs to be nurtured and cared for the way it deserves. ”
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“Real concentration is a jewel that very few people in this world get to know.”
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“The miracle of being awake is not the opposite of being asleep. It’s the opposite of being unaware.”
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“1) body (rupa), 2) feeling (vedana), 3) perception (sañña), 4) mental formations (sankhāra), and 5) consciousness (viññana).”
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“In 1987 Ayya Khema coordinated the first ever international conference of Buddhist nuns, where H. H. the Dalai Lama was the keynote speaker. In May 1987 she was the first person ever to address the United Nations in New York on the topic of Buddhism.”
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Miércoles 24 noviembre 2021
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