If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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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When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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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.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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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 you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
AJAHN CHAH