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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.

Ajahn Chah

When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures.
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Change Coming Meditation Out Posture Sit
The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight.
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Admire Gave Glass Glinten Hold Master Someone Sunlight Water
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Pot Practice Soup Teaching
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
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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Calm Concentration End Insight Investigation Long Meditation Mind Other Single Wood
You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.
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Buddha Come Happiness Many Strange Thing Wonderful
Hear the bird’s song then let go. If you know nature, you’ll know truth. If you know truth, you’ll know nature.
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Bird Go Hear Know Nature Song Truth
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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Doe Giving Sharp Suffering Way
Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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Agitation Found Oneself Place Running Suffer Teacher
You will have a steady awareness within yourself.
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Awareness Steady Within Yourself
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Already Green Mango One Ripe Sweet Young
Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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Battle Come Course Down Dozen Giving Just Let Meditation Technique
Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.
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Already Green Mango One Ripe Sweet Wisdom Young Yourself
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
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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Accept Mind Peaceful Practice Push
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.
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Dharma Good Inspire Lie Mindfulness
Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Buddha Certain Difficult Easy Just Life
When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.
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Confuse Doe Life Death Understand
One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death?
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Ask Blow Happy Illness Loved Master Philosophy Protect Wind
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities.
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Buddha Giving Need Observe Quality Up Virtue
Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Down Every Keep Lying Mindful Posture Practice Sitting Stand Steady Walk
Well, if it really was her anger, then she should be able to tell it to go away, shouldnt she? But it really isn’t hers to command.
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Anger Away Command Really Tell Well
We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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Come Everything Teacher Understand World
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, ‘Oh, that sound’s bothering me.’ If we see it like this, we suffer. But if we investigate a little deeper,
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Bother Deeper Hear Investigate Meditation Sound Suffer Think
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Clear Intuitive Little Teacher Wisdom World
To observe and watch one’s own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues.
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Buddhism Habit Interest Issue Meditation Mind Observe Own Pattern Practice Running Solve Story Untrained Watch
All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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Car Different Direction Heart Light Moving Religion Same

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