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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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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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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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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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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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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