Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
AJAHN CHAHThe heart of the path is quite easy.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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You 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?
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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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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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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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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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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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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