Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAHDon’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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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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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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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