If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
AJAHN CHAHIf we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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 give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just 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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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 master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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