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You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

Ajahn Chah

There’s no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That’s all that I do in my own practice.
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Anything Explain Hate Length Need Own Practice Thing
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Letting Little
The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.
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Feeling Heart Just Thought
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
The heart of the path is quite easy.
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Easy Equity Hate Letting Go Love Path
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
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Begun Buddhist Deeply Feeling Freedom Meditate
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
Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Another Chance Constant Dislike Man Nature Suffer Understand
The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.
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Anyone Ask Experience Flavour Longer Practice Problem Solve Taste Teaching
Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
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Everything Expectation Generosity Go Letting Mind Praise Reward
To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.
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Bird Chatter Fruit Point Sour Sweet Tree View Whatever
A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, ‘Why was I born?’ Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
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Ask Born Day Every Good Morning Night Practice Question Sincerely Yourself
If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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Meditate Mindful Time
The heart is the only book worth reading.
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Book Heart Only Read Worth
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
In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind.
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Case Difficult Easily Mind Practice Thinking
If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly.
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Attitude Constantly Peace Practice Reflect Way
Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
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Bowl Falling Full Inside never Outside Right Touch Water Way
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
The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.
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Balance Dhamma Found Heart Look Own Se True
When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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Beyond Cling Happiness Happy Longer Self Stop
I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
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Bird Branch Come Eat Forest Fruit Sweet Tree View
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
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
But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
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Broken Glass Know Minute Precious
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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Anger Belong Deception Hold Obey Personal Possession Suffering

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