These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
AJAHN CHAHWe should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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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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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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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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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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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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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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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.
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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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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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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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 are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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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