Ajahn Chah
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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The Dharma isn't about angels in the sky.
or anything like that.
It's simply about us, about what we are doing right now.
Observe yourself.
Sometimes there is happiness, sometimes suffering, sometimes comfort, sometimes pain.
This is Dharma.
Do you see it?
To know this Dharma, you have to read your experiences.
The Buddha wanted us to contact the Dharma.
But people only contact the words, the books and the scriptures.
It is contacting that which is about Dharma and not contacting the real Dharma as taught by our great teacher.
How can people say that they are practicing well and properly if they only do that?
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain you are bound to suffer.
When the heart truly understands it lets go of everything
The mind of one who practices doesn't run away anywhere.
It stays right there.
Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise.
And they know them all.
The meditator simply knows them.
They don't enter their mind.