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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.

Ajahn Chah

Time is our present breath.
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Breath Our Present Time
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Centre Come Door Into Job Room Visit Window
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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Book Bottle Memory Outside Read Wisdom Yourself
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 you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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Free Freedom Happiness Lot
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
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Meditate Mindful Time
Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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Bird Go Hear Know Nature Song Truth
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Case Difficult Easily Mind Practice Thinking
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
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Letting Little
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
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
Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.
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Attitude Close Eye Lying Practice Quick Sit
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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Conquer Ear Everything Eye Nose Object Oneslf Other Ourselves Sense
There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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Away Beautiful Everywhere Follow Kind Running Suffer Two

To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.

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To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.

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