Food for the Heart

The Collected Sayings of Ajahn Chah

By: Ajahn Chah

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Paperback | 15 June 2002

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Renowned for the beauty and simplicity of his teachings, Ajahn Chah was Thailand''s best-known meditation teacher. His charisma and wisdom influenced many American and European seekers, and helped shape the American Vipassana community. This collection brings together for the first time Ajahn Chah''s most powerful teachings, including those on meditation, liberation from suffering, calming the mind, enlightenment and the ''living dhamma''. Most of these talks have previously only been available in limited, private editions and the publication of Food for the Heart therefore represents a momentous occasion: the hugely increased accessibility of his words and wisdom. Western teachers such as Ram Dass and Jack Kornfield have extolled Chah''s teachings for years and now readers can experience them directly in this book.

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"Ajahn Chah stands out as a profound teacher in the best of Buddhist wisdom traditions. Compassionate, lucid, and far beyond any sectarian categorizing, Food for the Heart is all that and more. This humble and down-to-earth forest monastic has given us all a work which will stand the test of time with the world's great classics of spiritual literature. An important volume for all serious followers of the Way."--John Daishin Buksbazen, author of Zen Meditation in Plain English

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Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
About This Mind	p. 41
Fragments of a Teaching	p. 43
Conduct--Virtue and the World of the Senses
Living in the World with Dhamma	p. 53
Making the Heart Good	p. 61
Sense Contact--the Fount of Wisdom	p. 69
Understanding Vinaya	p. 81
Maintaining the Standard	p. 93
Why Are We Here?	p. 101
The Flood of Sensuality	p. 111
The Two Faces of Reality	p. 119
Meditation
A Gift of Dhamma	p. 135
Inner Balance	p. 141
The Path in Harmony	p. 147
The Training of the Heart	p. 153
Reading the Natural Mind	p. 163
The Key to Liberation	p. 179
Meditation (Samadhi Bhavana)	p. 219
Dhamma Fighting	p. 227
Just Do It!	p. 231
Right Practice--Steady Practice	p. 239
Samma Samadhi--Detachment Within Activity	p. 249
In the Dead of Night	p. 257
Wisdom
What Is Contemplation?	p. 275
Dhamma Nature	p. 279
Living with the Cobra	p. 287
The Middle Way Within	p. 291
The Peace Beyond	p. 297
Convention and Liberation	p. 307
No Abiding	p. 313
Right View--the Place of Coolness	p. 319
Our Real Home	p. 323
The Four Noble Truths	p. 333
"Tuccho Pothila"--Venerable Empty Scripture	p. 341
"Not Sure!"--the Standard of the Noble Ones	p. 351
Still, Flowing Water	p. 363
Transcendence	p. 373
Toward the Unconditioned	p. 383
Epilogue	p. 395
Glossary	p. 397
Notes	p. 403
Sources of the Text	p. 409
Index	p. 415
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