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Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.

Ajahn Chah

The forest is peaceful, why aren’t you? You hold on to things causing your confusion. Let nature teach you.
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Cause Confuse Confusion Go Hold Letting Peaceful Song
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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Arise Doe Peace Something
These days people don’t search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living.
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Knowledge Living Make Necessary Order People Simply Smart Study Truth Wise
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
Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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Come Job Out Paas Seat Stay Understanding Wisdom
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Begun Buddhist Deeply Feeling Freedom Meditate
We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
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Develop Evil Fall Give Up Heart Rain Teach
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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Anything Definitely Doe Feel Open Refuse Right Suffering View
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
The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn’t know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.
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Day Every Ladle Meditate Pot Reflect Soup Taste
Raise families and look after themselves, that’s all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!
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Family Important Look Raise Smart Themselves Wise
Time is our present breath.
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Breath Our Present Time
If you haven’t cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn’t really begun.
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Cried Deeply Happen Meditation Number Time
Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Come From Suffering
All that I have said up to now has merely been words. When people come to see me, I have to say something. But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
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All Friend Good Matter Merely Practice Regret Something Speak Word
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
If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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Hand Lying Run Situation Suffer Teaching Understand
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 suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don’t have to run away.
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Arise Away Contemplate Have Right Run Suffer
Don’t fall for it. Whenever the mind is happy or sad, don’t fall for it. Its all a deception.
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Deception Fail Fall Happy Mind Sad
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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Depend Mind Poor Rich Suffer Understanding
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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Arahant Both Know Madman Smile
If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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Begun Dhamma Dislike Follow Like Still
All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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Animal Clearly Drink Kind Nature Pool Thing Wonderful
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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Breath Down Meditation Practice Sleep Work
If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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Chicken Children Duck Suffer Want

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