At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
AJAHN CHAHWhen the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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