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Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking.

Ajahn Chah

The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Easy Equity Hate Letting Go Love Path
All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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Animal Clearly Drink Kind Nature Pool Thing Wonderful
The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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Anxiety Born Confusion Mind Tranquil
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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Aware Body Born Breath Far Away Going Once Out People
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
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
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
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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Depend Mind Poor Rich Suffer Understanding
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
Just know what is happening in your mind – not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It’s like a letter – you have to open it before you can know what’s in it.
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Attach Happen Letter Mind Open Sad Suffer
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Happen
You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Both Cling Form Needs World Personal Realm Universal Way
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body — it will all get conquered like this.
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Conquer Ear Everything Eye Nose Object Oneslf Other Ourselves Sense
The sound is just sound, why should you go and grab it? You see that actually it was you who went out and disturbed the sound.
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Actually Distribute Grab Out Sound Went
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

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