Ajahn Chah
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You owe them an incredible debt of gratitude.
So today, all of you children and relatives gathered together here, observe how your mother has become your child.
Before you were her children.
Now she has become yours.
She's become older and older until she has become a child again.
Her memory goes, her eyes don't see well and her ears aren't so good.
Sometimes she gobbles her words.
Don't let it upset you.
You who are nursing the sick must know how to let go also.
Don't hold onto things.
Just let it have her own way.
When a young child is disobedient, sometimes the parents let it have its own way, just to keep the peace, just to make it happy.
Only one book is worth reading.
Buddhism is a religion of the heart.
Only this.
One who practices to develop the heart is one who practices Buddhism.
Truth isn't outside.
That's only memory, not wisdom.
Memory without wisdom
is like an empty thermos bottle.