Know the Truth Within

Looking outside the self is to compare and to discriminate. You will not find happiness that way. Nor will you find peace if you spend your time looking for a perfect person or the perfect teacher. The Buddha taught us to look at the Dhamma, the truth, and not to look at other people. #104

Someone once asked Ajahn Chah about the way he taught meditation: “Do you use the method of daily interviewing to examine the mind-state of a person?” Ajahn Chah responded by saying: “Here I teach disciples to examine their own mind-states, to interview themselves. Maybe a monk is angry today, or maybe he has some desire in his mind. I don’t know it, but he should. He doesn’t have to come and ask me about it, does he?” #85

These reflections by Ajahn Chah are from the book, No Ajahn Chah, (pdf) pp.119 and 97, respectively.