Time is our present breath.
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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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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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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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
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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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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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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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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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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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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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