Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
AJAHN CHAHLetting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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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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Whenever 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.
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Well, 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.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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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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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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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