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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
Ajahn Chah
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Ajahn Chah
Age: 73 †
Born: 1918
Born: June 17
Died: 1992
Died: January 16
Bhikkhu
Ajahn Chah Subhaddo
Dharma
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Peace
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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.
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Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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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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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.
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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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