Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
AJAHN CHAHWhen you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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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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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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