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.
AJAHN CHAHPeople go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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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 haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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