Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
AJAHN CHAH
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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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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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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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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 nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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