Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
AJAHN CHAH
You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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 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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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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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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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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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Time is our present breath.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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