At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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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 see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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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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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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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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