What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
AJAHN CHAHYou will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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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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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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