The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
AJAHN CHAH
The heart is the only book worth reading.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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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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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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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.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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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.
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Time is our present breath.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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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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