“TRY TO PROVE THE BUDDHA WRONG"

 “TRY TO PROVE THE BUDDHA WRONG"

"Ajaan Maha Boowa would often say: ‘Try to prove the Buddha wrong' —because it's only when you've done your best to prove him wrong that you can be sure that you've really proved him right. Otherwise there's always a possibility that you're simply programming your mind to think in a certain way. You tell yourself, 'Ah, if you see there's no self, if you see that all things are empty, that must be Awakening.' But that's not the case. 

You can't clone Awakening. It's always an unexpected discovery when it comes. It never comes quite the way you conceived it."

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Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Excerpt from  “Standing Where the Buddha Stood"

~You can read the full talk here:

https://goo.gl/pYsSSG (pdf)