If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
AJAHN CHAHIf you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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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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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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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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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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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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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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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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