Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
AJAHN CHAHTherefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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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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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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Time is our present breath.
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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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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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