If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
AJAHN CHAHIf you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Time is our present breath.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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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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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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