Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
AJAHN CHAHWhen we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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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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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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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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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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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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