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.
AJAHN CHAHKnow and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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