When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
AJAHN CHAHWe say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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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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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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