The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
AJAHN CHAHLearn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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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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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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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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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.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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