You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
AJAHN CHAHI am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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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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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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