These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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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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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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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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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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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