In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
AJAHN CHAHIf suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and 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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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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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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