Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
AJAHN CHAHOnly one book is worth reading: the heart.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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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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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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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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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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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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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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