With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
Interpretation
Everything around us serves as a lesson if we are open to understanding it.
Ajahn Chah highlights the importance of intuitive wisdom, suggesting that a deeper understanding of life can be achieved when we recognize the lessons present in our daily experiences. By perceiving the world as our teacher, we cultivate a mindset of learning and growth, allowing us to navigate life's complexities with greater clarity and insight.
In practice
During a workshop about personal growth, this quote can encourage participants to view their experiences as opportunities for learning.
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy. Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are - no holding on, no attachment, free.
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
The art of living rightly is like all arts; it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there.
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