I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
AJAHN CHAHThe ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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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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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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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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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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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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