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.
AJAHN CHAHI am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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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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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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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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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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