Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
AJAHN CHAHTo the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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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. 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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Time is our present breath.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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 good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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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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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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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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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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