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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.

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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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