Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
AJAHN CHAHWhy are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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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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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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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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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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