Ajahn Chah Quotes, People Quotes, Body Quotes

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

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All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much. Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.

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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.

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If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

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Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

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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 emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.

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The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

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Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also. This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.

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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed. In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.

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If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.

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Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

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We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

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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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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

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