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U Thittila Sayadaw |
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A Buddhist's Companion |
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Right thought also means having correct thought. Sometimes
we think untruly or wrongly of other persons just because of
prejudice or ignorance; we get an idea that a certain person
is a ad person, and therefore all that he does must be evil.
We attribute motives to him, which are often without
foundation and in doing so we are thinking untruly of him,
and therefore our thought is not right thought.
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- We
live amongst others, so that whatever we think or say or do
will necessarily affect a great many people. We should
remember that our thought, our speech and our action are not
merely qualities, but powers we possess to use. All are
meant to be used for service, and to use them otherwise is
to fail in our duty.
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is action and not speculation, practice and not theory that
counts in life. The will to do, followed by the doing, is
the actual virtue; the will of itself does not count much
unless it is fulfilled.
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The
practice of perfect attention is a means of learning to know
oneself, to know the world in which one lives, and
consequently to acquire right understanding. He who does not
practise attention is the plaything of the multiple
influences with which he comes into contact, he is like a
drifting cork which is at the mercy of the waves.
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Tempters are quite powerless against those who refuse to
respond. Any weakness lies in a man’s own mind, and if he
has given in to others’ prompting, the real source of his
troubles, his failures and miseries, is his own weakness; he
is responsible for his every action.
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Knowing
that the Law is our greater helper if we live by it, and
that no harm can come to use if we work with it, knowing
also that it blesses us just at the right time, we learn the
grand lesson of patience, not to get excited, and that
impatience is a check to progress.
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Kamma knows noting about us. Does fire know us when it
burns? No, it is the nature of fire to burn, to give out
heat; our affair is to use it in the right way, we are
foolish if we grow angry and blame it when it burns us
because we have made a mistake.
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