You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
AJAHN CHAHYou will have a steady awareness within yourself.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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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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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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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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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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