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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.

Ajahn Chah

If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Anywhere Happy Look Meditation Mind
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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Enlightenment Holding Increase Learn Let Go Practice Thing
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
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
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
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
You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
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Dead Heedless Ifs Life Mindfulness Sail Sati
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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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Come Everything Teacher Understand World
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Anything Irritate Teacher Trouble
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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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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