3.2. Quote: “There’s just suffering arising and passing away.” — Ajahn Chah. Read by Kittisaro. [Suffering] [Impermanence ] [Ajahn Chah] // [Mindfulness] [Clear comprehension] [Discernment] [Birth] [Death] [Continuity of mindfulness]
4. Quote: “We think that this is my family, this is my home village, this is my country, and others are [not]. That’s just a delusion.” — Ajahn Chah. Quoted by Paul Breiter. [Ajahn Chah] [Goodwill] [Family] [Community] [Politics and society] [Delusion] // [Human ] [Birth] [Ageing] [Death]
7. Comment: While sitting in the dining hall, the image of a square cushion dropping away from my solar plexus occured. That brought the insight that I was neither inferior nor superior to others, as ego asserts, but we’re all equal. [Insight meditation] [Conceit]
Response by Ajahn Pasanno. [Self-identity view] [Cause of Suffering] [Suffering] [Relinquishment]
Quote: “Friends and relatives in old age, sickness and death.” — a common way to begin a Dhamma talk in Thailand. [Birth] [Ageing] [Death] [Culture/Thailand]
1. Comments about the role of parents. [Parents]
Quote: “Our mothers are our umbilical cord to the universe.” — Reverend Heng Sure. [Rev. Heng Sure] [Birth] [Death]