Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
AJAHN CHAHWhen coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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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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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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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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