Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
AJAHN CHAHAt some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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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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