When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
AJAHN CHAHYou should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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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.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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.
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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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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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