We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
AJAHN CHAHWhenever 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
-
-
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
AJAHN CHAH -
When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
AJAHN CHAH -
When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
AJAHN CHAH -
Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAH -
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
AJAHN CHAH -
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?
AJAHN CHAH -
If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
AJAHN CHAH -
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
AJAHN CHAH -
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
AJAHN CHAH -
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
AJAHN CHAH -
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
AJAHN CHAH -
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.
AJAHN CHAH -
Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
AJAHN CHAH -
Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
AJAHN CHAH -
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
AJAHN CHAH






