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.
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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Do 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.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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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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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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