"Meditation is like a single log of wood.……" — Ajahn Chah
"Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind."
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82 Quotes by Ajahn Chah
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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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…
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Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or…
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