You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
AJAHN CHAHIf we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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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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