The heart is the only book worth reading.
AJAHN CHAHWe will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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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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I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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