Rev. Danny Fisher

Today’s quote is from Luang Por Ajahn Sumedho, abbot of England’s Amaravati Buddhist Monastery and the most senior of the Western disciples of the late Ajahn Chah.  This is it:

We really have to determine to recognize and open to that which is emotionally fraught, that which is very powerful, overwhelming, frightening or threatening. Yet through the confidence of awareness, we begin to observe how these difficult situations affect the mind, the heart. What is the feeling? It’s not right or wrong. A feeling is what it is, and only we can know it. If we trust our awareness, we know it’s like this. We don’t need to have a word for it or define it in any way, because it is what it is. This is not cultural conditioning or the ego. It is direct knowing.