We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
AJAHN CHAHBut when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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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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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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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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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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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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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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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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