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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.

Ajahn Chah

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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Car Different Direction Heart Light Moving Religion Same
Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Bowl Falling Full Inside never Outside Right Touch Water Way
We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Come Everything Teacher Understand World
Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Activity Cobra Deadly Interface May Mental Own Poisonous Way
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
Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Family Important Look Raise Smart Themselves Wise
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
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Another Dhamma Listen Meditation Regard Simply Something Take Understanding Word
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
Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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Change Clean Defilement Dirty Let Mind Pure Sky Water Wonderful
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
When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Everything Heart Let Go Truly Understand
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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Anybody Come Immediate Simply Suffering Thron
Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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Anger Away Command Really Tell Well
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Anywhere Happy Look Meditation Mind
Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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Bowing Buddha Enough Need Practice Renounce Teach

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