When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
AJAHN CHAHWe can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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 one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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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 listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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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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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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