You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
AJAHN CHAHYou should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
AJAHN CHAHTime is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAHWell, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
AJAHN CHAHIf you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
AJAHN CHAHSati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
AJAHN CHAHWisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
AJAHN CHAHWhen you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
AJAHN CHAHThe mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
AJAHN CHAHYou are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
AJAHN CHAHWhat’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
AJAHN CHAHKnow and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
AJAHN CHAHWhenever 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.
AJAHN CHAHTo give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
AJAHN CHAHEven 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.
AJAHN CHAHWe say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
AJAHN CHAH