You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
AJAHN CHAHThe 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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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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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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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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