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:: Luang Por Sumedho | Pay Attention to Your Life ::

We must reflect on the way things are,
on the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned phenomena;
and to be able to contemplate impermanence
we need a level of awareness,
of sati (mindfulness) in which
we can have perspective on the conditions
we are experiencing in the present moment.

~ Luang Por Sumedho

Page 108, Pay Attention to your Life, The Wheel Of Truth

The Buddha’s teachings help us to see very clearly the way it is.
Through the teachings we come to understand things as they really are and realize that through the development of wisdom we can cut through the defilements that cause endless suffering in our lives. This suffering is not that of old age, sickness and death, but the suffering that comes from not understanding the process of suffering itself.

So far on the retreat we have become aware that this is a very sensitive and vulnerable form we inhabit, always being irritated and agitated in some way by the things that keep pressing onto it, impinging onto the senses and onto the body. Basically we are born into a realm of irritation and agitation, so when we’ve expected to be satisfied and fulfilled and haven’t been, it is because we have never examined life, never looked very deeply into it. We must reflect on the way things are, on the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned phenomena; and to be
able to contemplate impermanence we need a level of awareness, of sati (mindfulness) in which we can have perspective on the conditions we are experiencing in the present moment.

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Alle zittern vor der Gewalt und fürchten den Tod. Sobald du dich in die Situation eines anderen versetzt, wirst du nicht töten oder zum Töten auffordern. Der Hass hört nicht durch Hass auf, sondern nur durch die Liebe. Das ist das ewige Gesetz. Buddha, Dhammapada (um 500 v. Chr.)   Herzlich wil...

21/04/2022

“Compassion needs to be accompanied by courage in order to come to its full force in the world. (…)
Compassion is not something to keep locked inside yourself. It is
something to express in action. This compassion must persist beyond the thought, "If only their suffering would come to an end."
If we focus too long on wishing for something that we never pursue and that never happens, we run the risk of falling into a depression ourselves.

When compassion arises, it is the time to act.

When our compassion is not anchored in courage and a firm commitment to act effectively, we cannot even see those in society who suffer most and therefore warrant the most compassion.
Courage gives us the force to face any challenge and lift any load that needs lifting.
It also transforms our wish for something to happen into a
promise to do it ourselves.
When there is courage, compassion can
become a promise that we know we will deliver.” • Karmapa

(The Karmapa, Ogyen Trinley Dorje • “INTERCONNECTED”, p.195f.)