This sutta uses the metaphor of crossing a dangerous flood (ogha) to represent transcending samsara. The Buddha’s method—neither striving too hard nor being completely passive—illustrates the Middle Way.
Theravada
Thinking makes it so, by Ajahn Sumedho.
Exploring the Unborn.
Morning Meditation — When the mind is empty in line with its nature.
‘When the mind is empty in line with its nature, there’s no sense of ownership in it; there are no labels for itself. No matter what thoughts occur to it, it sees them as insubstantial, as empty of self.’
Upasika Kee Nanayon
Morning meditation — The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness.
‘The Buddha knew that because both happiness and unhappiness are unsatisfactory, they have the same value.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Whether people are happy or sad.
‘Whether people are happy or sad, content or discontent, doesn’t really depend on their having little or having much, it depends on wisdom.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — How do we practise non-clinging?
‘How do we practise non-clinging? We do it simply by giving up clinging. It can be very difficult to understand non-clinging, however. It takes a keen wisdom to investigate it, to really see the depth of it, and then to see the wisdom of it.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning Meditation —The Buddha said that the assertion that all things are empty.
‘The Buddha said that the assertion that all things are empty refers to nothing other than the awareness that they are empty of selfhood.’
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu
Morning meditation — People talk a lot about freedom.
‘People talk a lot about freedom in the sense of being physically able to do what one wants. And yet that kind of freedom can lead to slavery.’
Ajahn Sumedho
Buddhism now 