Ajahn Chah Quotes

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• There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face…
• The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way…
• When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
• 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…
• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to…
• Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
• When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
• Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
• 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 look…
• Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
• Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a…
• Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we…
• If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot…
• Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and…
• Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't…
• All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.
• With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world. We will come to understand that everything…
• 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 catch…
• You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to…
• Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

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