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When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

Ajahn Chah

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
When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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Certainty Chew Need Ourselves Some Understanding
Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Book Heart Reading Worth
If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Cried Deeply Happen Meditation Number Time
All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Car Different Direction Heart Light Moving Religion Same
If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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Arise Away Contemplate Have Right Run Suffer
To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
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Empty Existence Flow Lasting Peace Pleasure Self Stable True Vold World
Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Attachment Free Just Learn No Simply Struggle
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
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
Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Actual Run Suffer Toward Try
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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Belief Forest Listen Mind Other Sweet
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
We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.
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Anything Desire Find Letting
We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Come Everything Teacher Understand World
Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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Born Breathing Feel Important Life Live Morning People Practise Question Something

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