The heart is the only book worth reading.
AJAHN CHAHA madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Time is our present breath.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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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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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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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.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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