If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
AJAHN CHAHWhen one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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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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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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One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain.
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Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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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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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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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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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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