The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
AJAHN CHAHPeace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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