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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.

Ajahn Chah

With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
AJAHN CHAH

Clear Intuitive Little Teacher Wisdom World
If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
AJAHN CHAH

Free Freedom Happiness Lot
All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
AJAHN CHAH

Animal Clearly Drink Kind Nature Pool Thing Wonderful
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!
AJAHN CHAH

Bite Careful Future Grasp Hold Lurk Sometimes Thing Think Truth Uncertainty
You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
AJAHN CHAH

Both Cling Form Needs World Personal Realm Universal Way
These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
AJAHN CHAH

Knowledge Living Make Necessary Order People Simply Smart Study Truth Wise
The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
AJAHN CHAH

Anywhere Away Evil Mind Practice Right Run Running Stay
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
AJAHN CHAH

Centre Come Door Into Job Room Visit Window
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
AJAHN CHAH

Confuse Doe Life Death Understand
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
AJAHN CHAH

Depend Mind Poor Rich Suffer Understanding
Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
AJAHN CHAH

Breathe Have Importance See Time
We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
AJAHN CHAH

Come Everything Teacher Understand World
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
AJAHN CHAH

Happen
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
AJAHN CHAH

Broken Glass Know Minute Precious
Time is our present breath.
AJAHN CHAH

Breath Our Present Time
Sati is life. Whenever we don’t have sati, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
AJAHN CHAH

Dead Heedless Ifs Life Mindfulness Sail Sati

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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