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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.

Ajahn Chah

When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Bother Deeper Hear Investigate Meditation Sound Suffer Think
Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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Come Job Out Paas Seat Stay Understanding Wisdom
This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Mind Nature Own Persevere Practice
There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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Aware Body Born Breath Far Away Going Once Out People
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.’
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Actuality Anything Buddhism Cling Lot Phrase Word
Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Actual Run Suffer Toward Try
The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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Another Both Form Need Nothing Place Respect Truth World
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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Arise Doe Peace Something
When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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Certainty Chew Need Ourselves Some Understanding
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Doubt Knowing Look Own Teach Teacher
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Pot Practice Soup Teaching
When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Call Finally Idea Mess Nature No
Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Come From Suffering
The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Apple Ear Eye Flavour Hear Like Teaching Ultimate
We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Develop Evil Fall Give Up Heart Rain Teach
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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Arahant Both Know Madman Smile

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