Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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 Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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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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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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