Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.
AJAHN CHAHThere 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
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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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 cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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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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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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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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