Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
AJAHN CHAHTruth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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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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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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