Ajahn Quotes: top 63 famous quotes about Ajahn

Ajahn Quotes & Sayings

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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway — Ajahn Brahm

If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun. — Ajahn Chah

When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy. — Ajahn Chah

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer — Ajahn Chah

I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore. — Ajahn Sumedho

We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us. — Ajahn Chah

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer. — Ajahn Chah

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable. — Ajahn Sumedho

Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution. — Ajahn Sumedho

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing. — Ajahn Sumedho

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

The secret of life is ... everything is out of control. — Ajahn Brahm

If it isn't good, let it die. If it doesn't die, make it good. — Ajahn Chah

The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are. — Ajahn Chah

If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma. — Ajahn Chah

Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness — Ajahn Brahm

Only one book is worth reading: the heart. — Ajahn Chah

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing. — Ajahn Chah

If we see everything as uncertain, then their I value fades away. — Ajahn Chah

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world. — Ajahn Brahm

The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho

At some point your heart will tell itself what to do. — Ajahn Chah

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace. — Ajahn Chah

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by. — Ajahn Chah

The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement. — Ajahn Chah

Careful patience is the fastest way! — Ajahn Brahm

I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it incredibly. — Ajahn Chah

Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don't like. — Ajahn Brahm

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything. — Ajahn Chah

A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't. — Ajahn Chah

We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering. — Ajahn Chah

When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything. — Ajahn Chah

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself. — Ajahn Chah

Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it's free! — Ajahn Brahm

Fear is finding fault with the future. — Ajahn Brahm

Life is what's happening while you're worrying. — Ajahn Brahm

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight. — Ajahn Brahm

Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity than thinking. — Ajahn Brahm

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions — Ajahn Brahm

That which is threatening to the ego is liberating to the heart. — Ajahn Amaro

The heart is the only book worth reading. — Ajahn Chah

Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again. — Ajahn Chah

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious. — Ajahn Chah

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes. — Ajahn Brahm

The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you. — Ajahn Chah

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind. — Ajahn Brahm

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still. — Ajahn Chah

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate. — Ajahn Chah

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit. — Ajahn Chah

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away. — Ajahn Chah

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. — Ajahn Brahm

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

any place you don't want to be is a prison. — Ajahn Brahm

You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least. — Ajahn Chah

Instead of becoming the world's expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go. — Ajahn Sumedho

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don't have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead. — Ajahn Chah

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

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down. — Ajahn Amaro

Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go. — Ajahn Chah

Whatever you do in your life, Son, the door of my heart will always be open to you. — Ajahn Brahm

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind. — Ajahn Chah

The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life). — Ajahn Brahm

Time is our present breath. — Ajahn Chah