Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
AJAHN CHAHWisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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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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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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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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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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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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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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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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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