If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
AJAHN CHAHThe sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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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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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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A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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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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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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