Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
AJAHN CHAHHear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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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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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
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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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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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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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Isn’t it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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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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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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