Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
AJAHN CHAH
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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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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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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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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