When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
AJAHN CHAHWe will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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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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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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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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When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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