Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
AJAHN CHAHPeople go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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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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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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