You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
AJAHN CHAHDharma 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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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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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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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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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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