When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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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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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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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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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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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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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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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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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