If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate. Ajahn Chah More Quotes by Ajahn Chah More Quotes From Ajahn Chah The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice. Ajahn Chah hate letting-go love A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. Ajahn Chah madmen knows The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you. Ajahn Chah uncertainty dharma within-you Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering. Ajahn Chah light meditation fall Time is our present breath. Ajahn Chah breaths time When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this. Ajahn Chah eye ears noses The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced. Ajahn Chah balanced found heart The heart is the only book worth reading. Ajahn Chah reading heart book We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us. Ajahn Chah virtue protect If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate. Ajahn Chah ifs 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 suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer. Ajahn Chah bodhisattva ifs suffering All that I have said up to now has merely been words. Ajahn Chah good-friend regret practice Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it. Ajahn Chah emotion heart watches At some point your heart will tell itself what to do. Ajahn Chah heart motivational inspirational You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths. Ajahn Chah way world needs 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. Ajahn Chah woods meditation mind 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 tranquil once more. Ajahn Chah anxiety confusion mind If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun. Ajahn Chah cried meditation numbers To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself. Ajahn Chah oneself practice mean The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. Ajahn Chah walking-forward practice path
