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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

Ajahn Chah

When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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Everything Heart Let Go Truly Understand
You are your own teacher. Looking for teachers can’t solve your own doubts.
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Doubt Knowing Look Own Teach Teacher
We should conquer ourselves, rather than conquer others. Whether coming or going, standing, sitting or lying down, our mind should be focused in this way.
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Coming Conquer Down Focus Going Laying Ourselves Sitting Standing Way
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
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
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Centre Come Door Into Job Room Visit Window
When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
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Grasp Nothing Resist Sit Walk
Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool.
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Animal Clear Course Forest Let Mind Mindful Natural Surround Thing Trying
Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Come From Suffering
Then we don’t have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.
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Anybody Celebrate Confidence Going Keep Know Mind Simply
Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.
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Again Born
Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Anything Let Go Meditate Remember Rid Thing
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
The meditator simply knows them, they don’t enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
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Cling Enter Experience Meditator Mind Simply
You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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Actor Everything Kind Scene Story Temptation Witness
If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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Pot Practice Soup Teaching

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won’t be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

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