Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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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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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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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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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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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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