If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
AJAHN CHAHNo. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and 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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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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