No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
AJAHN CHAHYou should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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