If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
AJAHN CHAHMental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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