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One Quotes by 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…
- Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
- When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
- If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be…
- The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is…
- The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
- Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw…
- To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has…
- The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he…
- Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
- One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will…
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