Mahasi Sayadaw famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.
-- Mahasi Sayadaw

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We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....
If i get 8 hours to cut a tree i'll spend 7 hours to sharp my knife.
This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Energy has to be fed from a source. If you don't feed the source, it dissipates entirely.Same is true of liking a boy. If you cut off the thoughts, if you stop pinning, you're free to find a boy who is attainable.
Last question. Why do you love Della? - Braden Until Della walked into my life I didnâ€™t understand the idea of love. I had never been in love and experienced very little love in my life. But Iâ€™d seen it once -Woods
Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
I read like the flame reads the wood.
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
What life can I live that will let me breathe in and out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

Mahasi Sayadaw famous quotes

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