Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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 you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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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 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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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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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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