The heart of the path is quite easy.
AJAHN CHAHWhen coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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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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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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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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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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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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