Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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