Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAHKnow and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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