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If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Ajahn Chah

You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate?
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Breathe Busy Meditation Practice Time
Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Anything Let Go Meditate Remember Rid Thing
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
Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.
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Anything Irritate Teacher Trouble
If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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Begun Buddhist Deeply Feeling Freedom Meditate
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
You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.
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Day Death Least Per Think Three Time Very
When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Buddhist Business Inspirational Meditation Spiritual Thought
We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.
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Enlightenment Holding Increase Learn Let Go Practice Thing
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
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn’t cause suffering.
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Arise Cause Fruit Right Suffer View Wrong
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
Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
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Attachment Free Just Learn No Simply Struggle
Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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Buddhism Meditation Mind Own Practice Train
Where does peace arise? Peace arises whenever we let something go.
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Arise Doe Peace Something

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