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Larchfire: Photography from India, Nepal and Tibet, plus quotations primarily from traditions in Yoga and Buddhism

Living in the world and practicing meditation, you will seem to others like a gong that has not been struck and is not producing any sound. They will consider you useless, mad, defeated, but actually, just the opposite is true. Truth is hidden in untruth, permanence is hidden in impermanence. —Achaan Chah, <i> A Still Forest Pool </i>
<i>L1115 morning prayers</i>

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Living in the world and practicing meditation, you will seem to others like a gong that has not been struck and is not producing any sound. They will consider you useless, mad, defeated, but actually, just the opposite is true. Truth is hidden in untruth, permanence is hidden in impermanence. —Achaan Chah, A Still Forest Pool L1115 morning prayers

Ganges Allahabad fog sadhu Achaan Chah