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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.

Ajahn Chah

You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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Buddha Come Happiness Many Strange Thing Wonderful
The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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Cling Enter Experience Meditator Mind Simply
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
There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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Aware Body Born Breath Far Away Going Once Out People
What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
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Brightness Flashlight Great Help Ourselves Suffer
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Clear Intuitive Little Teacher Wisdom World
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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Anger Ask Deal Fall Mean Mind Want Woman
The heart is the only book worth reading.
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Book Heart Only Read Worth
Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet.
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Come Dirty Earth Evaporate Rain Sky Through Urine Wash Water
I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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Bird Branch Come Eat Forest Fruit Sweet Tree View
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
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Heart Inspirational Itself Motivational Point Some Tell
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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Burden Cling Go Gone Happiness Letting Life Struggle Understand
Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Actual Run Suffer Toward Try
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Effort Happen Meditation Overcome Particular Proper Something
Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he’s got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.
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Carry Got Heaven Look Mind Own Thing Think Thinking

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