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?
AJAHN CHAHIf your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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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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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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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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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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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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There 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.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, 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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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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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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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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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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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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