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.
AJAHN CHAHWhere does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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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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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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