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.
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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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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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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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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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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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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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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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