If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
AJAHN CHAHTime is our present breath.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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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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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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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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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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