Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
AJAHN CHAHOnce 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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Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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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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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.
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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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Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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Time is our present breath.
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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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You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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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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In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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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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