These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
AJAHN CHAHJust go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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.’
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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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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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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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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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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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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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