We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
AJAHN CHAHWhen nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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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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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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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 see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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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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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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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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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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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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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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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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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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