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Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

Ajahn Chah

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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Activity Cobra Deadly Interface May Mental Own Poisonous Way
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
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
Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
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Anything Let Go Meditate Remember Rid Thing
Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down.
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Down Every Keep Lying Mindful Posture Practice Sitting Stand Steady Walk
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
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
The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.
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Anywhere Away Evil Mind Practice Right Run Running Stay
Do not be in a hurry or try to push your practice. If you become peaceful, then accept it,; if you don’t become peaceful, then accept that also.
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Accept Mind Peaceful Practice Push
We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
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End Heaven Meditate Suffer
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
Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.
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Anywhere Go Learn Like Read Truth
Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.
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Effort Happen Meditation Overcome Particular Proper Something
Holding on to anger as a personal possession will cause suffering. If anger really belonged to us, it would have to obey us. If it doesn’t obey us, that means it’s only a deception.
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Anger Belong Deception Hold Obey Personal Possession Suffering
Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.
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Come From Suffering
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

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