Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
AJAHN CHAHWhy do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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