We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
AJAHN CHAHKnow 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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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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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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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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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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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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