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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.

Ajahn Chah

All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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If you let go completely you will have complete peace.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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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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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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Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.
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We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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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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The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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