Turtle

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Trees

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Traveller

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Trap

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Thorn

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Thirsty Man

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Thermos Bottle

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest _ A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Sweet Fruit

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Still, Flowing Water

(Ajahn Chah, "A Tree In A Forest - A Collection of Ajahn Chah's Similes")

Your Real Home

(Ajahn Chah, "In Simple Terms - 108 Dhamma Similes")

Find Lightness

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Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on only sees the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them and find lightness.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Place Inside and Outside

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If you're allergic to one place, you'll be allergic to every place. But it's not the place outside you that's causing you trouble. It's the place inside you.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Big Car, Little Car

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"As long as I have still not attained Supreme Enlightenment, I will not rise from this place, even if my blood dries up."

Reading this in the books, you may think of trying it yourself. You'll do it like the Buddha. But you haven't considered that your car is only a small one. The Buddha's car was a really big one. He could do it all at once. With only your tiny, little car, how can you possibly take it all at once? It's a different story altogether.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Feverish World

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The world is in a very feverish state. The mind changes from like to dislike with the feverishness of the world. If we can learn to make mind still, it will be the greatest help to the world.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Defilements

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The Buddha taught us that whatever makes the mind distressed in our practice hits home. Defilements are distressed. It's not that the mind is distressed! We don't know what our mind and defilements are. Whatever we aren't satisfied with, we just don't want anything to do with it. Our way of life is not difficult. What's difficult is not being satisfied, not agreeing with it. Our defilements are the difficulty.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Dhamma flows by itself

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Also when you expound the Dhamma you must not force yourself. It should happen on it's own and should flow spontaneously from the present moment and circumstances. People have different levels of receptive ability, and when you're there at that same level, it just happens, the Dhamma flows. The Buddha had the ability to know people's temperaments and receptive abilities. He used this very same method of spontaneous teaching. It's not that he possessed any special superhuman power to teach, but rather that he was sensitive to the spiritual needs of the people who came to him, and so he taught them accordingly.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Surrender, Emptiness, Laying Down the Burden

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Regardles of time and place, the whole practice of Dhamma comes to completion at the place where there is nothing. It's the place of surrender, of emptiness, of laying down the burden. This is the finish.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Mutual Companions

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It's all Dhamma if we have mindfulness. When we see the animals that run away from danger, we see that they are just like us. They flee from suffering and run toward happiness. They also have fear. They fear for their lives just as we do. When we see according to truth, we see that all animals and human being are no different. We are all mutual companions of birth, old age, sickness, and death.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Don't just sitting with the eyes closed

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Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is being mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you are coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")

Death is near

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Death is as close as our breath.

(Ajahn Chah, "No Ajahn Chah")