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Hope

We should always have a goal in our mind for attaining Dhammakâya, avoiding all that is wrong, and practicing goodness. We should also set intermediate goals, and observe ourselves regularly: did I get better, did I change? Such intermediate progress will give us encouragement, hope and meaning in life.

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Make a difference

When we use the word 'making a difference' we often thing of generating some sort of outward change, to change the world. But actually the place where we really make a difference is in our own mind, when we bring it to stillness. From that stillness within that is superb, we will be able to be a true kalyânamitta to our fellow world citizens, without doubt and feeling discouraged. Indeed, to make a difference is to make your mind different first -- by purifying with the power of stillness.

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Tending

"Whoever would tend me, you should tend the sick."
       The Buddha, Mahâvagga.

The way the Buddha spread the Dhamma

The Buddha, the Blessed One, was able to spread the Dhamma very fast
because he didn't convert people into Buddhists, but rather he taught
people from all sorts of religions to think Buddhist.

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Raising up your mind

What is patience? It means to be in the habit to raise your mind through meditation and right thought. When your mind is imbued with good thoughts to such an extent, that negativity cannot take hold of your mind anymore. This is what the ancients called adhivâsana-khanti, which could be translated as 'the patience of raising up your mind'.

Sure, it is about positive thinking, but it is also about confronting yourself with reality, being realistic to yourself. Khun Yai Ajan used to say that we have to plant some blessings in our mind on a regular basis. I think the meaning is the same here.

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Sincerity towards virtue

Sincerity towards virtue means that at the end of the day you can take account to yourself for the extent that you have done your best to do good on any day, without any regrets, and with a feeling of satisfaction imbueing your heart. You can call it conscience, if you will.

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ใส่ให้ใจใส

ใสๆ ใครใส่ไว้ในใจ
ใสๆ ใส่กลางภายในใส้ไว้
ใสๆ ใช่ใส่ใจได้ไม่
ใสๆ ใจใสไว้ ใส่ให้ใจใส

--หลวงพ่อธัมมชโย

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The way the Buddha spread the Dhamma

The Buddha, the Blessed One, was able to spread the Dhamma very fast because he didn't convert people into Buddhists, but rather he taught people from all sorts of religions to think Buddhist.

เรา

สิ่งใดที่คนอื่นเขาทำได้ เราก็ทำได้
สิ่งใดที่คนอื่นทำไม่ได้ เราก็ทำให้
-- พระเทพญาณมหามุนี พ.ศ. 2547

Expressions

A person intent on fulfilling his paramis will regard all his work and
actions as expressions of compassion from the still mind within, and
evaluates them as such.

The most important muscles

The most important muscles that a monk needs to train are the muscles
of the eye. What to look at, and what not to look at is the beginning
of the foundation of the holy life.

Honor in your work

To have honor in your work means you can't let the work be fuzzy, it
is a sense of shame and conscience that is healthy and fruitful.

A new self

Making a daily resolution, aditthâna,  is imagining and believing in a
new self.

Ven. Moggallâna's work

It is said that from the two main disciples of the Buddha, Ven.
Sâriputta performed the duty of teaching people until they could
attain Stream-entry, at which they would certainly become enlightened.
Ven. Moggallâna however, would continue to teach stream-enterers till
they attained arahant, at which they had reached the final stage of
enlightenment. Why did the Venerable continue to teach people who were
already destined for enlightenment? Why did he not teach newcomers,
whose minds were filled with impurities? Because he aimed at building
leaders of the Dhamma. If anyone had reached arahantship, he would be
able to devote his time in living and teaching that Dhamma he had
attained, and that would be for the benefit of many.

Sometimes it is better to perfect something already reasonably
well-done, than to do many things reasonably well.

Fellows in aging, sickness and death

Isn't it interesting that everyone looks quite the same when they're
old? Asian, European or American, everyone is wrinkled and grey. We
are all fellows in the same cycle of aging, sickness and death.

Sacrifice

In all of my greatest moments of sacrifice I have always had the
feeling i acted for my own benefit, that, indeed, nothing else was
more beneficial to me than self-sacrifice.

Inspiring to faith

Today Luang Phor Dhammajayo explained the Thai term 'ที่ตั้งแห่งศรัทธา'. He mentioned that a sâmanera or monk should act in a way that inspires faith to others, in order that others can place their faith in you easily. We should be like a holder in which incense is placed, in honor of the Triple Gem -- the foundation and the person that gives joy, inspiration and life to those who support the Sangha. Just like one little sâmanera, that is Nigrodha, inspired confidence in the emperor Asoka the Great, till the extent that he dedicated his life to the Dhamma and spread it all over Asia. It all started with one single sâmanera, who had practiced his mind until he had attained to enlightenment, who taught the aggressive emperor not to be complacent but practice goodness at all times.

The effort of one fulfilling pâramîs

A person intent on fulfilling pâramîs has a different kind of effort
than people in general. His effort is aiming for accomplishment, but
not limited to it. Failure is completely unrelated to it -- his effort
is always constant.

Effort has a reward on its own

Effort, just by itself, is already rewarding. Just like in the time
when the Bodhisatta was born as Mahajanaka, swimming in the ocean
without seeing any land, sometimes we may be uncertain whether we are
on the right track. But be confident -- effort in good and wholesome
matters has a reward in itself. Even when we haven't met our goals
yet, at least we have overcome the habit of heedlessness and despair.
This is fulfilling in itself.

Simplicity in wisdom

Today I consulted with a senior monk about meditation. His answers were very simple, so simple that I had to admit I was struck by it. It was complete, even though I expected more complexity.
Truly, simplicity can be found in wisdom.

Non-hatred

For in this world hatred is never
Allayed by further acts of hate.
It is allayed by non-hatred:
That is the fixed and ageless law.
The Buddha, M iii.154