This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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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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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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