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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

Ajahn Chah

When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Grasp Nothing Resist Sit Walk
We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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End Heaven Meditate Suffer
Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Anybody Celebrate Confidence Going Keep Know Mind Simply
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Letting Little
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Anything Let Go Meditate Remember Rid Thing
Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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Book Heart Reading Worth
The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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Cling Enter Experience Meditator Mind Simply
To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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Examine Mean One Oneself Practice
There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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Anything Explain Hate Length Need Own Practice Thing
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 we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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Arise Continous Develop Fast Mindfulness Practice Quick Way Wisdom
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
Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Bite Careful Future Grasp Hold Lurk Sometimes Thing Think Truth Uncertainty
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
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

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