When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
AJAHN CHAHIf we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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 heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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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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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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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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