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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.

Ajahn Chah

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
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Attach Fall Light Meditation Rise Vision
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Centre Come Door Into Job Room Visit Window
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
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
Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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Activity Cobra Deadly Interface May Mental Own Poisonous Way
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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Experience Forest Found Freedom Suffer Teacher
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
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Broken Glass Know Minute Precious
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Pot Practice Soup Teaching
We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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End Heaven Meditate Suffer
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
If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Bound Certainty Suffer Suffering Uncertain
The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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Achievement Epitome Mind Peaceful Serene
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

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