The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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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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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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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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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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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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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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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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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