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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.

Ajahn Chah

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
Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Bite Careful Future Grasp Hold Lurk Sometimes Thing Think Truth Uncertainty
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Again Born
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Depend Mind Poor Rich Suffer Understanding
We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Anything Desire Find Letting
See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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Experience Mind Mirror Moment Reflection Reveal Truth Understanding
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
Time is our present breath.
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Breath Our Present Time
You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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Actor Everything Kind Scene Story Temptation Witness
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 master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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Admire Gave Glass Glinten Hold Master Someone Sunlight Water
To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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Bird Chatter Fruit Point Sour Sweet Tree View Whatever
Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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Accept Mind Peaceful Practice Push
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
Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Come From 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

Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.

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