If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
AJAHN CHAHIsn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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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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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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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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