If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
AJAHN CHAH
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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