If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
AJAHN CHAHLearn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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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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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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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