Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
AJAHN CHAHSati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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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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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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