If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
AJAHN CHAHIf you let go completely you will have complete peace.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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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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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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