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.
AJAHN CHAHIf suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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Time is our present breath.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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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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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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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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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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