Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
AJAHN CHAHThe one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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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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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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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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