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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

Ajahn Chah

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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If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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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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The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.
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The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
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When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.
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You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
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Once you understand non-self, then the burden of life is gone. You’ll be at peace with the world. When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness and we can truly be happy.
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Know and watch your heart. It’s pure but emotions come to colour it. So let your mind be like a tightly woven net to catch emotions and feelings that come, and investigate them before you react.
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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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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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This is the nature of the mind. We must find our own practice and persevere.

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