Today’s talk explores proliferation — the mind’s habit of endlessly fabricating stories, memories, cravings, and imagined futures. Just like the heart beats on its own, the ordinary mind thinks on its own, night and day. Left unchecked, it becomes a wild horse or an engine revving too high. The practice is simple but powerful: Catch the thought the moment it arises. Don’t identify with it. Don’t claim it as “mine.” Just know it — and it dissolves. If it’s emotionally charged, it may return, but each time you recognize it, its power weakens. This is the essence of mindfulness: the watcher recognizing the thought as it spins. With consistent practice, proliferation loses its force, and what remains is peace, tranquility, and equanimity. Stay patient. Stay observant. You can do this — and you must.

#mindfulness #buddhism #peaceofmind #meditation #dhamma

Today’s reflection reminds us that the true place of practice isn’t a building, a shrine, or a sacred location — it’s the heart. We can visit temples, light candles, bow, and pray, but lasting transformation happens only when we quiet the thinking mind and look within. The brain analyzes, remembers, imagines — but it also deceives. The heart is where Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, and the God-within can be found. Through mindfulness — watching each thought and the emotion that follows it, then letting it go — we slowly open the heart and uncover the treasure already waiting there. Your real temple is within you. Keep practicing, keep looking inward, and don’t give up.

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Today’s talk looks at the difference between the life we’re taught to chase — constant getting — and the freedom that comes from letting go. The world encourages craving: more success, more possessions, more recognition. But none of it lasts, and clinging to what changes creates suffering. Letting go means releasing the idea that “I’m a person who is lacking.” Our true nature is already whole.

Through mindfulness, we gently drop each thought and emotion we claim as “mine,” returning again and again to: “This is not me. This is not mine. This is not myself.”

Letting go isn’t losing — it’s uncovering the peace already within you.

#mindfulness #buddhism #lettinggo #dhamma #innerpeace #wisdom

In today’s talk, we reflect on a revealing interview with the world’s top-ranked golfer — wealthy, famous, celebrated — who admits that every achievement feels amazing for two minutes… and then it’s gone. The cycle begins again: new goals, new pressure, new expectations. His honesty highlights a universal truth: Worldly rewards never last. The trophies, the clothes with tags still on them, the praise, the recognition — the joy fades almost instantly. Yet there is an alternative. A path not driven by constant reaching, but by letting go. A lifestyle grounded in inner peace rather than external achievement. A practice that, with patience and perseverance, leads to something lasting — even liberation. Ask yourself: What am I chasing? Does it ever truly satisfy? Maybe the point isn’t getting more… maybe it’s letting go.

#mindfulness #buddhism #letgo #wisdom #success #innerpeace #awakening #dhamma

My name is Jay Gray, a retired American man who has spent years of nearly continuous daily practice in solitude including 1.5 years alone in a cave in Thailand. My fully liberated teacher, Phra Ajahn Kanchit and other Ajahns have encouraged me to help spread the Dhamma using social media.This platform uses Dhamma teachings from many great historic teachers, traditions and religions.The Dhamma is Non-Sectarian.

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Madrone Mountain Meditation is not yet established at a physical location. It remains our long-term goal, but currently, all instruction is conducted online.

CONTACT US:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090478031990&mibextid=ibOpuV

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@madronemountainmeditation2

PODCAST: https://open.spotify.com/show/5v7BTwm0gpnfRvUOPydfw9

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/madrone-mountain-meditation/id1748521515

WEBSITE: https://madronemountainmeditation.org

EMAIL: [email protected]

WHATSAPP: 96-1474-6785

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Link to download E-book Kammatthana: https://madronemountainmeditation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/e-book-K.Jay_-1.pdf

Madrone Mountain Meditation is not yet established at a physical location. It remains our long-term goal, but currently, all instruction is conducted online.

CONTACT US:

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090478031990&mibextid=ibOpuV

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@madronemountainmeditation2

PODCAST: https://open.spotify.com/show/5v7BTwm0gpnfRvUOPydfw9

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/madrone-mountain-meditation/id1748521515

WEBSITE: https://madronemountainmeditation.org

EMAIL: [email protected]

WHATSAPP: 96-1474-6785

LINE: jaybird44behappy

Link to download E-book Kammatthana: https://madronemountainmeditation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/e-book-K.Jay_-1.pdf