The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
AJAHN CHAH
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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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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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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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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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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 you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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