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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

Ajahn Chah

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
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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Breath Down Meditation Practice Sleep Work
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
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 Wisdom Young Yourself
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
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
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
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
Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Anywhere Go Learn Like Read Truth
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
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Agitation Found Oneself Place Running Suffer Teacher
Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it.
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Colour Emotion Heart Pure Watch
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
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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Animal Clear Course Forest Let Mind Mindful Natural Surround Thing Trying
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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Buddhism Meditation Mind Own Practice Train

If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

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