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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 knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

Ajahn Chah's Popular Quotes

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

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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 a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will …

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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 kind…

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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

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A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.

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

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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not e…

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