If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight… — 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
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the… — 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
Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?… — 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
Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you… — 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
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises… — 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
