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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.

Ajahn Chah

Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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Calm Concentration End Insight Investigation Long Meditation Mind Other Single Wood
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Advantage Afraid Attachment Feel Generously Nature Oppressed Taken
Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Breathe Have Importance See Time
We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Come Everything Teacher Understand World
Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Anything Arahant Bodhisattva Suffer
Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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Bother Learn Mirror Reflection Them Thing Understanding
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Everything Expectation Generosity Go Letting Mind Praise Reward
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Backward Forward Path Practice Standard Standing Still Walking
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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Carry Got Heaven Look Mind Own Thing Think Thinking
I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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Blow Day Elbow Knock Ring Shelf Table Touch Wind
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
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
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Anything Irritate Teacher Trouble
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
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
Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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Anger Away Command Really Tell Well

Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.

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Read yourself, not books. Truth isn’t outside, that’s only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle – if you don’t fill it, it’s useless.

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