At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
AJAHN CHAHThe Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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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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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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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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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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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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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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