Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
AJAHN CHAHMeditation 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
-
-
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.
AJAHN CHAH -
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
AJAHN CHAH -
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
AJAHN CHAH -
This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
AJAHN CHAH -
Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAH -
The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
AJAHN CHAH -
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
AJAHN CHAH -
Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
AJAHN CHAH -
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
AJAHN CHAH -
Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
AJAHN CHAH -
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.
AJAHN CHAH -
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 CHAH -
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
AJAHN CHAH -
If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
AJAHN CHAH -
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
AJAHN CHAH