The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
AJAHN CHAH
You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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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.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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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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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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