Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
AJAHN CHAHWhat’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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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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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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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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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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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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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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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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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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