If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
AJAHN CHAHThe Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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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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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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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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