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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.

Ajahn Chah

We can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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Always Breath Important Meditation Practice Time
The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
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Backward Forward Path Practice Standard Standing Still Walking
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
We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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End Heaven Meditate Suffer
If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain.
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Bad Bowl Completion Day Doing Make Merit Outside Overturn Rain Stop Thing
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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Doing Evil Give Up Important Merit Mke
Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath.
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Breathe Have Importance See Time
Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer.
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Another Chance Constant Dislike Man Nature Suffer Understand
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them.
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Attach Fall Light Meditation Rise Vision
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
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
Letting 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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Bring Complete Go Letting Little Lot Peace
Time is our present breath.
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Breath Our Present Time
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
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
When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.
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Call Finally Idea Mess Nature No

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