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.
AJAHN CHAHIt 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.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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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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