Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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 you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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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 see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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