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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

Ajahn Chah

Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Bite Careful Future Grasp Hold Lurk Sometimes Thing Think Truth Uncertainty
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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Anything Become Buddhist Enlighten Trying
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
Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Come Dirty Earth Evaporate Rain Sky Through Urine Wash Water
You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Awareness Steady Within Yourself
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Chicken Children Duck Suffer Want
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Achievement Epitome Mind Peaceful Serene
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Examine Mean One Oneself Practice
Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Book Heart Reading Worth
The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Anywhere Away Evil Mind Practice Right Run Running Stay
If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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Arise Continous Develop Fast Mindfulness Practice Quick Way Wisdom
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Heart Inspirational Itself Motivational Point Some Tell
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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Dharma Good Inspire Lie Mindfulness
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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Bring Complete Go Letting Little Lot Peace
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Limited Lying Mind Other Ourselves Practice Teach Try
We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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Always Breath Important Meditation Practice Time

Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.

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