If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
AJAHN CHAH
Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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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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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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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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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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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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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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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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