When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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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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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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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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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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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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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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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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