If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
AJAHN CHAHSteady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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 see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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