You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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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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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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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