Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
AJAHN CHAHWe practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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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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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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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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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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