Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
AJAHN CHAHYou are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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