If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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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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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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