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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.

Ajahn Chah

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
I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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Bird Branch Come Eat Forest Fruit Sweet Tree View
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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Able Find Heart Looking Mustache Peace Turtle
If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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Arise Away Contemplate Have Right Run 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
We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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Another Arise Defliment Develop Disappear Explain Listen Meditation Need Oneself Understanding
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
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
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
People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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Blind Bother Death Feast Fine Food Idea Ignore Party People Toilet
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Heart Inspirational Itself Motivational Point Some Tell
The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Day Every Ladle Meditate Pot Reflect Soup Taste
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
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Happen
The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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Every Mind Moment Quiet Reveal Understand
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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Breath Down Meditation Practice Sleep Work

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