If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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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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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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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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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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