If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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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 ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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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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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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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
AJAHN CHAH