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What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

Ajahn Chah

Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Anger Belong Deception Hold Obey Personal Possession Suffering
In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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Allow Attachment Come Cultivating Generously Greed Lighter Nature Oppress Out
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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Feeling Heart Just Thought
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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Animal Clearly Drink Kind Nature Pool Thing Wonderful
The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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Anyone Ask Experience Flavour Longer Practice Problem Solve Taste Teaching
Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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Burden Cling Go Gone Happiness Letting Life Struggle Understand
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
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Bound Certainty Suffer Suffering Uncertain
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Letting Little
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
If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Complete Dharma Guy Ifs Let Go Peace
This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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Mind Nature Own Persevere Practice
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
Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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Doe Giving Sharp Suffering Way
Better to begin practice without delay. I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere. Do not hesitate, just get going. You won’t regret it.
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Better Delay Friend Going Good Hesitate Inviting Practice Regret Somewhere
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

What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

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