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 CHAHIf you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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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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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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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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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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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