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.
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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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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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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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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 coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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