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?
AJAHN CHAHLetting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
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People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one.
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If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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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If it shouldn’t happen, it wouldn’t happen.
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Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don’t interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.
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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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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
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If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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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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To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.
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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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Investigate yourself to find the truth – inside, not outside. Knowing yourself is most important.
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