There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
AJAHN CHAHOnly one book is worth reading: the heart.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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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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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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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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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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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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