When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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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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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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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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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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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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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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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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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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If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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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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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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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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