Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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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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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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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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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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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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