If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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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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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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