{"product_id":"1845","title":"To Light A Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\"\u003eThis Bodhi Leaf is out of print. You can find it in the \u003ca href=\"product.asp?itemid=4555\"\u003eCollected Bodhi Leaves Volume V\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e You have taken the moral precepts, now practice them. Only when your practice of morality \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e(sila)\u003c\/span\u003e is perfect can you fulfill your aspirations for awakening. Having perfected yourselves in morality, you have to perform various other meritorious practices, and these can take you to the pinnacle and the fulfillment of your aspirations...\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDo not get confused about the teachings. We don't have to know many techniques, only one; but that we should know clearly. If we establish one technique with strong effort and get rid of all doubts then, without asking anyone else, we shall find the answers. Choose one technique and practice it steadfastly. If you focus your mind at the small spot where the air touches when you breathe in and out, then there will be no wanting, no aversion or delusion, and as these three are absent, you are immediately out of suffering. So, for a short moment your mind is pure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNow, if your last mind-moment came up at this time and you died, would there be anything to be worried about or to be afraid of? The benefits accruing to you from this practice don't last for just a short moment or one life-time. This short moment of purity will bring benefits for the remainder of the cycle of birth and death. And why can you accomplish this? Because the time is right, your form of existence is right, and you are putting forth right effort.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe disciples of the Buddha took the practice from the Teacher and worked with unwavering perseverance. Therefore, they achieved the awakening they had aspired for. How did they work? In the same way as a man who wants to light a fire with a fire stick, as in the olden days. They rubbed two pieces of wood together, and heat was produced. Eventually the wood started to glow, and then they could light a fire \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sayadaw, Webu","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101530361950,"sku":"BPS:402122","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/402122.jpg?v=1760547888","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/1845","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}