Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
AJAHN CHAHKnow and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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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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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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