When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
AJAHN CHAHIf you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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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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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Time is our present breath.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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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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The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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