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.
AJAHN CHAH
The 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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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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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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