This document contains summaries of teachings from Ajahn Chah on Buddhism and meditation. The key points are: 1) You are your own teacher and must investigate yourself to find truth from within, rather than looking outside. 2) People today study just for knowledge and livelihood, not to find truth. Being smart is valued over being wise. 3) To truly understand Dhamma teachings, one must practice meditation and reflection, not just listen intellectually. 4) Buddhism teaches how to live properly by showing us how to let go of attachments and desires through meditation. When we stop wanting, enlightenment can arise.

1. 反思阿姜查的智慧教法
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2. You are your own teacher.
Looking for teachers can't solve
your own doubts. Investigate
yourself to find the truth -
inside, not outside. Knowing
yourself is most important.
你是你自己的老师。 找老师解决不了自己的疑惑。
调查自己以找到真相 - 内在，而不是外在。 了解
自己最重要。
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3. These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply
in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise
families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being
smart is more important than being wise!
现在人们不再寻找真理。 人们学习只是为
了找到必要的知识来谋生，养家糊口，照
顾自己，仅此而已。 对他们来说，聪明比
聪明更重要！
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4. If you listen to the
Dhamma teachings but
don't practice you're like a
ladle in a soup pot. The
ladle is in the soup pot
every day, but it doesn't
know the taste of the soup.
You must reflect and
meditate.
如果你听法教而不修行，你就像
汤锅里的勺子。 勺子天天在汤
锅里，却不知道汤的滋味。 你
必须反思和冥想。
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5. Only one book is worth reading:
the heart.
只有一本书值得一读：心。
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6. When one does not understand
death, life can be very confusing.
当一个人不了解死亡时，
生活可能会非常混乱。
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7. If you let go a little you will have a little peace;
if you let go a lot you will have lot of peace;
if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
放下一点，就会有一点安宁；
如果你放手很多，你就会有很多平静；
如果你完全放手，你将拥有完全的平静。
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8. We practice to learn how to let go, not how to
increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment
appears when you stop wanting anything.
我们练习学习如何放手，而
不是如何增加我们对事物的
把握。当你不再想要任何东
西时，开悟就会出现。
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9. How does the Dhamma teach the proper way of life? It shows us how to
live. It has many ways of showing it - on roots 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 dhamma revealing itself here and
now. At what other time and place are you going to look?
佛法如何教导正确的生活方式？ 它告诉我们如何生活。 它有多种
展示方式 - 在根部或树木上或就在您面前。 它是一种教导，但不是
言语。 所以仍然保持头脑、心灵，并学会观察。 你会发现整个法
在此时此地展现出来。 您打算在其他什么时间和地点查看？
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10. If you have
time to be
mindful, you
have time to
meditate.
如果你有时
间用心，你有
时间打坐。
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11. Remember you don't
meditate to "get" anything,
but to get "rid" of things.
We do it, not with desire,
but with letting go.
If you "want" anything,
you won't find it.
记住你打坐不是为了“得到”任何东西，而是为了“摆
脱”东西。 我们这样做，不是出于欲望，而是出于
放手。 如果你“想要”任何东西，你将找不到它。
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12. Why are we born? We are
born so that we will not
have to be born again.
Ajahn Chah
我们为何而生？
我们出生是为了不必重生。
Ajahn Chah
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13. Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor
or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong
understanding in our mind.
快乐与痛苦不在于贫富，它们取决于我
们头脑中的正确或错误理解。
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14. To define Buddhism without a
lot of words and phrases, we
can simply say, 'Don't cling or
hold on to anything.
Harmonize with actuality, with
things as they are.'
Ajahn Chah
不用大量的词语来定义佛教，我
们可以简单地说，“不要执着或执
着任何东西”。 与现实协调，与事
物本来的样子协调。
With Metta,
Bro. Oh Teik Bn
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