If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
AJAHN CHAHWhatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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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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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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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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