If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
AJAHN CHAHTo give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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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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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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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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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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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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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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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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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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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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