We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
AJAHN CHAHThe heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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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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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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