If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
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
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
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma. — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead. — 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
Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle -… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting… — 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
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only… — 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
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water… — 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
You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do 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
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we… — 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
Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves,… — 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
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
