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.
AJAHN CHAHProper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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