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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

Ajahn Chah

We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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Limited Lying Mind Other Ourselves Practice Teach Try
You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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Actor Everything Kind Scene Story Temptation Witness
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Meditate Mindful Time
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
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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Dharma Phenomena Practice Recognize Within
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
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Protect Us Virtue
Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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Find Important Inside Investigate Knowing Most Outside Truth
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.
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Able Find Heart Looking Mustache Peace Turtle
To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, ‘Don’t cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.’
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Actuality Anything Buddhism Cling Lot Phrase Word
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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Bring Complete Go Letting Little Lot Peace
The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind.
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Aim Deeply Do Establishment Goddess Lying Mind Right Sink View
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
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
If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Happen

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