Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
AJAHN CHAHIf it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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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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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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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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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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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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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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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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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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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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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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