The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
AJAHN CHAHThe heart of the path is quite easy.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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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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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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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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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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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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