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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

Ajahn Chah

The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can’t see with the eye or hear with the ear.
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Apple Ear Eye Flavour Hear Like Teaching Ultimate
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
You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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Actor Everything Kind Scene Story Temptation Witness
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Bound Certainty Suffer Suffering Uncertain
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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Actuality Anything Buddhism Cling Lot Phrase Word
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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Endlessly Foolish Increase Issue Most One Right Settle Stupid Suffer
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
Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Buddha Certain Difficult Easy Just Life
We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Coming Conquer Down Focus Going Laying Ourselves Sitting Standing Way
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
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
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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Attitude Constantly Peace Practice Reflect Way
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
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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Ask Blow Happy Illness Loved Master Philosophy Protect Wind
When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Call Finally Idea Mess Nature No
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

The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

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