If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
AJAHN CHAHMental 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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To 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.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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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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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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 one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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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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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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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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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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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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