Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
AJAHN CHAHWe don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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