All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
AJAHN CHAHLook 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Time is our present breath.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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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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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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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 have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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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It 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.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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