Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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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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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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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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Time is our present breath.
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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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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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