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Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Ajahn Chah

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
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Achievement Epitome Mind Peaceful Serene
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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Belief Forest Listen Mind Other Sweet
If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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Bad Bowl Completion Day Doing Make Merit Outside Overturn Rain Stop Thing
We see that the sound is simply sound. If we understand like this, then there’s nothing more to it. We leave it be.
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Leave Like More Nothing Simply Sound Understand
What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Brightness Flashlight Great Help Ourselves Suffer
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Broken Glass Know Minute Precious
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
Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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Colour Emotion Feeling Heart Investigate Know Mind Pure
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
When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Change Coming Meditation Out Posture Sit
You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Both Cling Form Needs World Personal Realm Universal Way
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Heart Inspirational Itself Motivational Point Some Tell
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

Anything Definitely Doe Feel Open Refuse Right Suffering View
There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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Anything Explain Hate Length Need Own Practice Thing
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
AJAHN CHAH

Again Born

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