If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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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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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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