You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
AJAHN CHAHKnow and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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