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.
AJAHN CHAHIf you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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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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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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