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.
AJAHN CHAHWe see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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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 forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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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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