You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
AJAHN CHAH
In 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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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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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