You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
AJAHN CHAH
The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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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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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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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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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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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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