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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.

Ajahn Chah

Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that–don’t be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain.
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Buddha Certain Difficult Easy Just Life
Some people are afraid of generosity. They feel they will be taken advantage of or oppressed.
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Advantage Afraid Attachment Feel Generously Nature Oppressed Taken
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
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
The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.
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Every Mind Moment Quiet Reveal Understand
In cultivating generosity, we are only oppressing our greed and attachment. This allows our true nature to come out and become lighter and freer.
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Allow Attachment Come Cultivating Generously Greed Lighter Nature Oppress Out
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
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Anywhere Happy Look Meditation Mind
Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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Actual Run Suffer Toward Try
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
All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things.
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Animal Clearly Drink Kind Nature Pool Thing Wonderful
Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
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Bowing Buddha Enough Need Practice Renounce Teach
If we see suffering then we don’t have suffering.
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Have See Suffer
You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them.
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Both Cling Form Needs World Personal Realm Universal Way
We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.
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Protect Us Virtue
At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Heart Inspirational Itself Motivational Point Some Tell
With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Clear Intuitive Little Teacher Wisdom World

It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.

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It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering.

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