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.
AJAHN CHAHThe 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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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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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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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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