“[I]f you’re going to awaken to the #Dhamma, the #heart has to teach itself. … It’s not easy for us to see ourselves. It’s hard. So think about this a little bit. We’ve all done evil. Now that we’re old, we should stop. Make it lighter. Make it less. There’s really nothing else. This is all there is. Turn your minds in the direction of #virtue.”

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#MakeItLighter #MakeItLess #gentle #buddhism #dharma

“Even if fire burns your house, even if water floods your home, have it go only as far as the house, only as far as your home. If fire burns, don’t let it burn your #heart. If water floods, don’t let it flood your heart. Let it flood just the house. Let it burn just the house, which is something that lies outside your body. As for your heart, have it let go … It’s time to let go.”

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#LetGo #mindfulness #buddhism #dhamma #dharma

“Have you ever eaten sugarcane? When you eat from the tip to the base … the closer you get to the base, the sweeter it becomes — … even when there’s only an inch left, you don’t want to throw it away. … The ants want to eat it but you won’t let them have it.

So let your #practice be like that. Practice the #Dhamma like a person eating sugarcane.”

#AjahnChah - #InSimpleTerms #PracticeLikeSugarcane #SweeterEveryMoment #SorryAnts #kindness #meditation #buddhism

“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.”

In Simple Terms
#AjahnChah
https://www.lotuslibrary.com/ebooks/in-simple-terms-by-ajahn-chah/ #buddhism #mindfulness #InSimpleTerms