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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

Ajahn Chah

When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Buddhist Business Inspirational Meditation Spiritual Thought
Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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Battle Come Course Down Dozen Giving Just Let Meditation Technique
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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Belief Forest Listen Mind Other Sweet
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Examine Mean One Oneself Practice
Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Anything Arahant Bodhisattva Suffer
I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table.
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Blow Day Elbow Knock Ring Shelf Table Touch Wind
There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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Anything Explain Hate Length Need Own Practice Thing
When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Everything Heart Let Go Truly Understand
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
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
All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Car Different Direction Heart Light Moving Religion Same
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Anything Irritate Teacher Trouble
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
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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Arahant Both Know Madman Smile
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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All Friend Good Matter Merely Practice Regret Something Speak Word
Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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Attach Happen Letter Mind Open Sad Suffer
Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Colour Emotion Heart Pure Watch
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 suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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Arise Cause Fruit Right Suffer View Wrong
The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Dharma Phenomena Practice Recognize Within
The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Day Every Ladle Meditate Pot Reflect Soup Taste
People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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Blind Bother Death Feast Fine Food Idea Ignore Party People Toilet
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
When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Grasp Nothing Resist Sit Walk
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
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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Confuse Doe Life Death Understand
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Already Green Mango One Ripe Sweet Young

Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.

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