22 June 2010

Teachings by Ajahn Chah

First you understand the Dharma with your thoughts. If you begin to understand it, you will practise it. And if you practise it, you will begin to see it. And if you see it,you are the Dharma and you have the joy of the Buddha.

Theory and practice - the first knows the name of a medicinal plant, and the second goes out to find it and uses it.

Be careful about observing our precepts. Virtue is a sense of shame. What we have doubts about, we should not do or say. This is virtue. Purity is being beyond all doubts.