When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
AJAHN CHAHIf you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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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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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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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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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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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 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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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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