Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still, like a clear forest pool. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying,… — 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
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
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as… — 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
