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.
AJAHN CHAHDon’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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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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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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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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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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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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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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