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 CHAHIf you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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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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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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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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