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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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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.
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Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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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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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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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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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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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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Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Time is our present breath.
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Breath Our Present Time

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