Category: Recognise

Practice 11 – Mindfulness of the body: its reality and composition

Understanding the true nature of our physicality

When we look at the body clearly, we see it’s neither beautiful nor ugly — it’s just a bag of elements doing their job.

Ajahn Chah

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Practice 12 – Mindfulness of the Body: Mindfulness of the Elements

Recognising the fundamental materials of our raft

Deconstructing the body into qualities

I see that this body—made of the four elements—is not really me, and I am not limited by this body.

Thich Nhat Hanh

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Practice 13 – Mindfulness of the Body: Contemplating change, ageing, and death

Recognising the impermanent nature of our raft

All conditioned things are impermanent. When one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Gotama – The Buddha

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Māra – I can see you,
Māra – I can hear you,
Māra – I can smell you,
Māra – I can taste you,
Māra – I can feel you,
Māra – I know you!

RAFT to Freedom

Practice 14 – “Māra, I See You”: Navigating the ongoing journey

Temptation and relapse: Guardrails against falling overboard

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

Lao Tzu

Where there is no perception of craving, there is freedom from suffering.

Adapted from a Buddhist Commentary

Māra – I can see you,
Māra – I can hear you,
Māra – I can smell you,
Māra – I can taste you,
Māra – I can feel you,
Māra – I know you!

RAFT to Freedom

“Māra never vanishes; he is always there, lurking. But for those who have opened their eyes, his power is broken. They see him and know him, and he cannot deceive them.”

Adapted from a Buddhist Commentary

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Practice 15 – Cultivating the resolve to build and navigate

Directing our energy wisely

“The chains of habit are too light to be felt until they’re too heavy to be broken.”

Samuel Johnson

“We are conditioned, and we can be reconditioned – even unconditioned.”

Vince Cullen

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