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.
AJAHN CHAHYou say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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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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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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