Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
AJAHN CHAHThere are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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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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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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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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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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