Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
AJAHN CHAH
In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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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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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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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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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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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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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
AJAHN CHAH