"When we sit in meditation and hear a……" — Ajahn Chah
"When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper, we see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there's nothing more to it. We leave it be. The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound."
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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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Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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