To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
AJAHN CHAH
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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