Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You'll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Do everything with a mind that lets go. Don’t accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Even though some of you may experience some peace when you sit in meditation, don’t be in a hurry to congratulate yourselves.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share
