To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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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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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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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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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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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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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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