I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
AJAHN CHAHIf your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
More Ajahn Chah Quotes
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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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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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 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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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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