If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
AJAHN CHAHRegarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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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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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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