There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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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The 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.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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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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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Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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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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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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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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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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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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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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