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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
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Away Beautiful Everywhere Follow Kind Running Suffer Two
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Protect Us Virtue
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
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
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
I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it – incredibly.
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Already Broken Enjoy Glass Incredible Know
Dharma is in your mind, not in the forest. Don’t believe others, just listen to your mind. You don’t have to go anywhere else.
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Belief Forest Listen Mind Other Sweet
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
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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Ask Blow Happy Illness Loved Master Philosophy Protect Wind
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
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 want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.
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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 you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
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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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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

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.

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