Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
AJAHN CHAHTo define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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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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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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