If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
AJAHN CHAHAnything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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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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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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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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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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