Ajahn Chah

It has many ways of showing it, on rocks or trees or just in front of you.

It is a teaching, but not in words.

So still the mind, the heart,

and learn to watch.

You'll find the whole Dharma revealing itself here and now.

First you understand the Dharma with your thoughts.

If you begin to understand it, you will practice it.

And if you practice it, you will begin to see it.

And when you see it, you are the Dharma and you have the joy of the Buddha.

The Dharma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

There is only one real magic, the magic of Dharma.

Any other magic is like the illusion of a card trick.

It distracts us from the real game, our relation to human life, to birth, to death and to freedom.

If you don't feel good, look inside.

If you know it's wrong and still do it, that's defilement.

It's hard to find those who listen to Dharma.

who remember Dharma and practice it, who reach Dharma and see it.

Regardless of time and place, the whole practice of Dharma comes to completion at the place where there is nothing.

It's the place of surrender,

of emptiness, of laying down the burden.