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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

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Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.

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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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Meditation will drop all the masks. It is a search for the original face.

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If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the way. But if you cannot find Friend or master to go with you, Travel on alone.

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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

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An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

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To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

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Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

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Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit.

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We do not depend upon any external help in meditation.

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Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

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Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.

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[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

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You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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Thought-habits can harden into character. So watch your thoughts.

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