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 CHAHDo 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Meditation 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.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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