Ajahn Chah Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Happiness, Letting Go

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• Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

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  Teacher, Irritating

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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 directly, and so become free.

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  Beautiful, Running, Two

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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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  Ducks, Suffering, Want

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

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  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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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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  Understanding, Mind, Suffering

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• Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

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  Animal, Mind, Trying

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• Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

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  Doe, Arise

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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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  Buddhist, Trying, Enlightened

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• A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers. Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn't hers to command. Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn't obey us, that means it's only a deception. Don't fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don't fall for it. Its all a deception.

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  Fall, Mean, Mind

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• 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 hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

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  Running, Teacher, Suffering

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• Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If
  we step on it, we suffer immediately.
  Why do we suffer? Because we
  stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

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  Giving, Suffering, Doe

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• We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Ends

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• The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you. Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.

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  Letting Go, Song, Confusion

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

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  Happens, Ifs

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• The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.

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  Achievement, Peaceful, Mind

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• We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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  Letting Go, Practice, Enlightenment

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• Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

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  Letting Go, Remember You, Remembers You

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• When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

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  Letting Go, Heart

  Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

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• We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

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  Lying, Practice, Mind

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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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  Practice, Peaceful, Mind

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• If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go.
  When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
  Truth is all there is.
  It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

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  Meditation, Mind, Looks

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• Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

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  Born Again, Born

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• If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good.

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  Inspiring, Mindfulness, Dharma

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• If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

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  Suffering, Ifs

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