Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
AJAHN CHAH
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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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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