You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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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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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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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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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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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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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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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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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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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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