Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
AJAHN CHAHIf you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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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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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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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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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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