People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
AJAHN CHAHIn cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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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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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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