If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
AJAHN CHAHWhere does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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