Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
AJAHN CHAHWe see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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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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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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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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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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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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