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 CHAHWisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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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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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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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