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.
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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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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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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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 one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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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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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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