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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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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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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another’s explanation our defilements will disappear.
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Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view.
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If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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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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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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