Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
AJAHN CHAHDon’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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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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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Mental 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.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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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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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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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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