The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
AJAHN CHAHAll kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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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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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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