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Another pāramī is sacca—truth. By practicing sīla one undertakes to maintain truthfulness at the vocal level. However, sacca must also be practiced in a deeper sense. Every step on the path must be a step with truth, from gross, apparent truth, to subtler truths, to ultimate truth. There is no room for imagination. One must always remain with the reality that one actually experiences at the present moment.
The Discourse Summaries
S. N. Goenka
For the last hundred years or so we’ve trained children not to ask for anything, because it’s a nuisance. Children are told, ‘Those that ask don’t get.’ And then as an adult they think they’d be selfish if they said, ‘It makes me feel better when you text before you go to sleep to say goodnight.’ It doesn’t sound much to ask, does it?
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
The third mark of existence is suffering, dissatisfaction. As Suzuki Roshi put it, it is only by practicing through a continual succession of agreeable and disagreeable situations that we acquire true strength. To accept that pain is inherent and to live our lives from this understanding is to create the causes and conditions for happiness. To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death. We suffer, not because we are basically bad or deserve to be punished, but because of three tragic misunderstandings.
The Places That Scare You
Pema Chodron
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