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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.

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The heart of the path is quite easy.
AJAHN CHAH

Easy Equity Hate Letting Go Love Path
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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You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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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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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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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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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
AJAHN CHAH

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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
AJAHN CHAH

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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!
AJAHN CHAH

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