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.
AJAHN CHAHDifficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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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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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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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.
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Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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