Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
AJAHN CHAH
You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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.
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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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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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