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 to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go. - Ajahn Chah
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
- Ajahn Chah
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer. - Ajahn Chah
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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 … - Ajahn Chah
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 …
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… - Ajahn Chah
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…
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. - Ajahn Chah
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself. - Ajahn Chah
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma. - Ajahn Chah
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher. - Ajahn Chah
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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… - Ajahn Chah
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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