Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
AJAHN CHAHIf we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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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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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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