If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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 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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Know 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.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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