Ajahn Chah - Investigue o Sofrimento

Quotes and excerpts from the book "Dharma of the Forest" by Ajahn Chah. Ajahn Chah (1918 - 1992) was a great master of the "Thai Forest Tradition" lineage of Theravada Buddhism. Ajahn Chah (or Chah Subhaddo) was born in a rural village near the city of Ubon Rajathani, Thailand. Following tradition, after completing his basic education, he was ordained as a novice monk at the local village monastery, where he spent the first years of his monastic life studying the foundations of Dharma, the Pali language, and the scriptures. After a serious illness and the death of his father, Ajahn Chah recognized that despite his exhaustive studies, he no longer felt close to having a personal understanding of the end of suffering. So, in 1946, he abandoned his studies and went on a pilgrimage. He walked for several years, sleeping in forests and receiving food in the villages he passed through, spending time in monasteries, assimilating the teachings and practicing meditation. It was during his stay at the Wat Kow Wongkot monastery that he met Ajahn Mun, a highly revered meditation master, who taught him that, although the teachings are indeed extensive, in their essence they are very simple: “With awareness, if we see that everything arises in the ‘heart-mind’. There lies the true path!” This succinct and direct teaching was a revelation for Ajahn Chah, transforming his way of practicing. The path was clear! Beloved and respected in his country as a man of great wisdom, Ajahn Chah became an influential teacher and founder of great monasteries of his tradition. His teachings contain what can be called the “heart of Buddhist meditation” – the simple and direct practices of calming the heart and opening the mind to the true understanding of truth. This form of constant vigilance has rapidly expanded as a Buddhist practice in the West, teaching us to deal with denser mental states, such as fear, greed, or feelings of loss, and to learn the path of patience, wisdom, and selfless compassion. According to Ajahn Chah, training the mind is not just about sitting with our eyes closed or perfecting a meditation technique. It is about a great renunciation. 🙏 Purchase Theravada Buddhism books through our Amazon link: https://amzn.to/41ZZBEx 📚 Check out our list of recommendations: https://www.amazon.com.br/shop/corvoseco “Wisdom is already within you, just as a sweet, ripe mango is already within a green, unripe mango.” Ajahn Chah. “If it pleases us, we like it; if it doesn't please us, we don't like it, that's how it is. That's not how it works, the world is like that. That's why people suffer all the time. I teach the monks who are hospitalized: if you get better, accept it; if you don't get better, accept it. That's fine. If you only accept it if you get better, if you don't get better you suffer, you suffer until you cry. There has to be a resolution: if you get better, I accept it; if you don't get better, I accept it. But in our hearts we take the side of getting better, we don't want to get better, and that's why we suffer. If you get better you have to accept it, if you don't get better you have to accept it, you have to accept both completely. If you get better, you get better, if you don't get better, you don't get better. That's fine. We remain the same, we haven't lost anything.” Ajahn Chah “As a starting point in the Buddha's science, we are taught about Sīla. Number one: do not oppress other beings, small or large, human or animal. This is the Buddha's science so that we do not suffer. The second aspect is that we should not fight over things, let them be. Do not dispute objects, let them be. This is the Buddha's science. The third, if we are laymen: it is normal to have a family, do not betray your family. Betraying your family will be another issue to generate suffering. The fourth is to be honest: do not lie, be sincere with each other, all of you. This is another point of the Buddha's science. Number five is not to drink things that intoxicate. We are already intoxicated enough in our minds with all kinds of things. If you drink in addition to that, you surpass the limit of intoxication, you will no longer know what is what. If you unite all this, we call it the Buddha's science. This Buddha's science encompasses all sciences. It prevents other sciences from losing their way, it prevents them from generating suffering. Thus, all the People would live in harmony, without enmity or resentment towards others. If we learn all these sciences and add the science of the Buddha, we can say that we are Buddhists: it is called Buddha Sāsanā.” Ajahn Chah. Music: Yotam Agam - Earth (   • Earth  ) Yotam Agam - Sun (   • Sun  ) ======================================= 🎯 Corvo Seco is a study group on non-duality. 🙏 Help support our channel: PIX: [email protected] 📷 Instagram:   / corvoseco   💻 Facebook:   / corvoseco   📩 Contact us...