It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
AJAHN CHAHThere’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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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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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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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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We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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