We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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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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The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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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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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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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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