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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

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
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
Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Attachment Free Just Learn No Simply Struggle
If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Hand Lying Run Situation Suffer Teaching Understand
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
The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Easy Equity Hate Letting Go Love Path
Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Colour Emotion Heart Pure Watch
The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Actually Distribute Grab Out Sound Went
Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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Buddhism Meditation Mind Own Practice Train
Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Dead Heedless Ifs Life Mindfulness Sail Sati
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
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
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
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Limited Lying Mind Other Ourselves Practice Teach Try
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

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