The book is the first attempt to bring together the most significant teachings of Ajan Chaa, consisting of explanations of meditation techniques and methods, избавления from suffering, calming the mind, achieving enlightenment, and instructions for “living Dhamma.” Most of these talks were previously available only in limited-run editions intended for personal use by a narrow circle of practitioners.
… The value of Dhamma can’t be found in textbooks. What’s in books is only the outer side of the Buddha’s Dhamma, not its realization in personal experience. If you have understood Dhamma—then you have understood your own mind. Then you will see the truth.
Once it becomes obvious, truth interrupts the flow of delusion. The teaching of that Truth is unchanging. The Buddha revealed this truth two and a half thousand years ago. Since then, this truth has not stopped being truth. A teaching about this Truth doesn’t need simplifications or additions…