Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
AJAHN CHAHAll religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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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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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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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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