Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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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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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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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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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!
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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 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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