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**Buyingtime** · 03-18-2012, 11:54 PM

In "The Sound of Silence" Ajahn Sumedho wisely observes :

The refuge is in Buddha, not in these yanas. The Buddha knows that every thought is changing and not-self. So trust in that, in the simplicity of that. Because if you don't, then its going to arouse your old compulsive habits of thinking : " I've got to do more. I've got to develop this. I've got to become a bodhisattva. I've got to get the higher practice going." And on and on like that.

When you're caught in the conventional realm and that's all you know, you're easily intimidated and blinded by all the dazzling positions and attitudes and ideas that people throw at you.

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T...umedho&f=false

(bold font is my own emphasis)

03-18-2012, 11:54 PM	#4
Buyingtime Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 557 Senior Member	In "The Sound of Silence" Ajahn Sumedho wisely observes : The refuge is in Buddha, not in these yanas. The Buddha knows that every thought is changing and not-self. So trust in that, in the simplicity of that. Because if you don't, then its going to arouse your old compulsive habits of thinking : " I've got to do more. I've got to develop this. I've got to become a bodhisattva. I've got to get the higher practice going." And on and on like that. When you're caught in the conventional realm and that's all you know, you're easily intimidated and blinded by all the dazzling positions and attitudes and ideas that people throw at you. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T...umedho&f=false (bold font is my own emphasis)
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