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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

Ajahn Chah

These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Knowledge Living Make Necessary Order People Simply Smart Study Truth Wise
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
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
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
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Beyond Cling Happiness Happy Longer Self Stop
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
There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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Aware Body Born Breath Far Away Going Once Out People
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Chicken Children Duck Suffer Want
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Buddha Giving Need Observe Quality Up Virtue
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.
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Anything Definitely Doe Feel Open Refuse Right Suffering View
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Happen
You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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Buddha Come Happiness Many Strange Thing Wonderful
Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Another Chance Constant Dislike Man Nature Suffer Understand
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
Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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Anything Become Buddhist Enlighten Trying

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