‘The way out of suffering is meditation itself.’
Ajahn Chah
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — The crude, beginning level of the practice.
‘The crude, beginning level of the practice is a little hard to maintain, but the refined levels all come out of this.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — In a more profound sense the Buddha.
‘To say that the Buddha has passed into Nibbana is not necessarily true. In a more profound sense the Buddha is still alive.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Trees don’t know anything.
‘Trees don’t know anything, they act on natural laws, yet they do know enough to grow away from danger, to incline towards a suitable place.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — What is it that Makes us suffer?
‘What is it that makes us suffer?
If we follow the path inwards we will find out.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — Remember this.
‘Any speech which ignores uncertainty is not the speech of a sage.
Remember this.’
Ajahn Chah
Morning meditation — We say that we’ll Practice.
‘We say that we’ll practice in this way—but only a day or two goes by, maybe just a few hours, and we forget all about it.’
Ajahn Chah
Insights into Thinking.
We suffer, we are stuck in some kind of pain, mostly mental — mental torment, mental pain.
Buddhism now 