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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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Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them.
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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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No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
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If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don’t practice you’re like a ladle in a soup pot.
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All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don’t see it have no light in their hearts.
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If you are still following your likes and dislikes, you have not even begun to practise Dhamma.
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When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.
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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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We will come to understand that everything in the world is our teacher.
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If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
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Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.
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Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one’s own mind.
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With even a little intuitive wisdom we will be able to see clearly the ways of the world.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe…
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