The heart of the path is quite easy.
AJAHN CHAHAll that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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