If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
AJAHN CHAHIt is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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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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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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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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