We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
AJAHN CHAHThe 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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