Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
AJAHN CHAHLearn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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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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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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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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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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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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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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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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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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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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