Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
AJAHN CHAHRaise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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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 the only book worth reading.
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