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.
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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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?
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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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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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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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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