All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
AJAHN CHAHThese days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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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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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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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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