Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
AJAHN CHAHOnly one book is worth reading: the heart.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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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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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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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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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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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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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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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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