To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
AJAHN CHAHDo 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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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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