When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
AJAHN CHAHIf we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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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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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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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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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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