My practice?? My Dharma?

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"Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Should
I meditate or develop more merit first? Let's hear what Ajahn Chah has to
say
When we follow our own views on practice, our own opinions about the
Dhamma, we can never see clearly what is right and what is wrong. We don't know
our own heart. We don't know ourselves.
Therefore, to practice following
your own teachings is the slowest way. To practice following the Dhamma is the
direct way. Lazy you practice; diligent you practice. You are aware of time and
place. This is called "developing the heart."
If you indulge in following
your own views and try to practice accordingly, then you will start thinking and
doubting a lot. You think to yourself, "I don't have very much merit. I don't
have any luck. I've been practicing meditation for years now and I'm still
unenlightened. I still haven't seen the Dhamma." To practice with this kind of
attitude can not be called "developing the heart." It is called "developing
disaster."
If, at this time, you are like this, if you are a meditator who
still doesn't know, who doesn't see, if you haven't renewed yourself yet, it's
because you've been practicing wrongly. You haven't been following the Teachings
of the Buddha. The Buddha taught like this: "Ananda, practice a lot! Develop
your practice constantly! Then all your doubts, all your uncertainties, will
vanish." These doubts will never vanish through thinking, nor through
theorizing, nor through speculation, nor through discussion. Nor will doubts
disappear by not doing anything. All defilements will vanish through developing
the heart, through right practice only.
~Ajahn Chah~
Quoted from:
Bodhinyana ~ The Training of the Heart http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/bodhinyana.html#trainingThis
is message sent to me by my sis few years ago.Enjoy.With Metta
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