When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
AJAHN CHAHTry to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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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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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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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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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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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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