Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
AJAHN CHAHThe meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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