Ajahn Chah on actuality
“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.’”
More Ajahn Chah quotes
Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah 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.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah 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.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah 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.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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