150 Quotes by Ajahn Chah

If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

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.

Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don't believe others, just listen to your mind. You don't have to go anywhere else. Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.