We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
AJAHN CHAH
People 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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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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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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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