It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
AJAHN CHAHWe need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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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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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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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Time is our present breath.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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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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