Ajahn Chah Quotes About Heart
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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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.
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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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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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 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.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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