If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
AJAHN CHAHHolding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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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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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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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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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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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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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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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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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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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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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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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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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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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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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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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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