In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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 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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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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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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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.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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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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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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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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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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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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