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The heart of the path is quite easy.

Ajahn Chah

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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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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Colour Emotion Feeling Heart Investigate Know Mind Pure
A woman wanted to know how to deal with anger. I asked when anger arose whose anger it was. She said it was hers.
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Anger Ask Deal Fall Mean Mind Want Woman
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Centre Come Door Into Job Room Visit Window
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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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.
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There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That’s how far away they live from themselves
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Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.
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Anything Arahant Bodhisattva Suffer
The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.
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The serene and peaceful mind is the true epitome of human achievement.
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We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering.
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We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others.
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