What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
AJAHN CHAHEven if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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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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Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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