Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
AJAHN CHAHTruth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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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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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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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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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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