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If you can keep mindfulness and concentration alive, then looking deeply will reveal to you the true nature of your pain. And freedom will arise as a result of your sustaining a deep vision into the nature of your pain.
The Buddha said this: “The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.”
Each of us is a king who reigns over a very vast territory that has five rivers. The first river is our body,
second is the river of sensations. Each sensation is a drop of water in this river.
To meditate is to sit down on the bank of the river of sensations and identify eac...
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third is the river of perceptions, which it is nece...
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fourth is the river of mental formations, of which there are fifty-one.1 And finally, the fifth i...
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If you can do it this way, three weeks are enough to transform the pain inside you, to bring back your joy in living, to cultivate the energy of compassion with which you can help the person you love.
five skandhas or aggregates. According to Buddhist philosophy, these are the elements that constitute “personality” or selfhood: form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness.
Thus a sangha is absolutely necessary for continuing one’s
practice.
