#dhamma
Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.
Do not be a meditator.
Do not become enlightened.
When you sit, let it be.
What you walk, let it be.
Grasp at nothing.
Resist nothing.
If you haven’t wept deeply,
you haven’t begun to meditate.
Ajahn Chah
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I made another thing. This group didn’t really have a name that I could find, but it comes up a lot in the suttas as being things that support the development of various enlightened states of being and wisdom.
Seclusion can be physically secluding yourself to meditate, but also seclusion from sensual desires or unwholesome things, etc.
Dispassion happens when as you develop wisdom and start seeing things through a lens of impermanence and permanence, you start to lose interest in impermanent things like sensual pleasures and existence and rebirth, etc.
Cessation is what happens when you reach the various levels of enlightenment and the fetters are “cut off at the root, made like a palm-tree stump that can come to no further existence in the future.” so those beliefs and desires completely cease to be and cannot arise again. (the symbol is based on a palm tree root structure)
Relinquishment is when you are able to fully let go of things, truly freeing you from them.
here’s all the ones I’ve made so far. I’m working on 4 foundations of mindfulness, 7 factors of enlightenment, dependent origination, and the meditative states right now.
I made another thing.
The Five Hindrances: the main things that get in the way when trying to meditate#buddhism#meditation#Dhamma#Hindrances#fivehindrances#graphicdesign#SensualDesire#ILLWILL#slothandtorpor#restlessnessandworry#doubt
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I made two things (one is just an expanded version of the other)
The Five Precepts: Do not kill, do not steal, do not lie, no harmful/dishonest sexual conduct, no intoxicating substances
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The Eight Precepts (for monastics and periods of intensive practice): Do not kill, do not steal, do not lie, no sexual conduct, no intoxicating substances, restraint from vanity, entertainment, luxuries, do not overindulge in sleep, eat only one meal a day before noon
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“I do not wish to convert people from one organized religion to another; I have no interest in any of these organized religions. My interest is in Dhamma - the truth, the teachings of all Enlightened Ones. If at all there is any conversion, it should be from misery to happiness, from defilement to purity, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to Enlightenment.”— S. N. Goenka
We all came here with different gifts and different objectives to accomplish, every single one of us is equally unique, equally special, and equally important. It is only natural that to completely unfold our uniqueness we must each tread a path that is intimately our own. Follow your heart even if you don’t know exactly where you are going. Do not worry, when you follow your heart you can never get lost.
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