Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
AJAHN CHAH
To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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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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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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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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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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