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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.

Ajahn Chah

No. It’s simply a thorn. It doesn’t give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately.
AJAHN CHAH

Anybody Come Immediate Simply Suffering Thron
I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits.
AJAHN CHAH

Bird Branch Come Eat Forest Fruit Sweet Tree View
To know existence as this flow, empty of lasting pleasure, void of self, is to find that which is stable and free of suffering, to find true peace in the world.
AJAHN CHAH

Empty Existence Flow Lasting Peace Pleasure Self Stable True Vold World
Wherever we start to think that things are certain, uncertainty is lurking right there. Heedlessness is just holding things as certain. It is grasping at certainty where there is no certainty and looking for truth in things that are not true. Be careful! They are likely to bite you sometime in the future!
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Bite Careful Future Grasp Hold Lurk Sometimes Thing Think Truth Uncertainty
If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
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Free Freedom Happiness Lot
A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn’t.
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Arahant Both Know Madman Smile
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
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
When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
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Buddhist Business Inspirational Meditation Spiritual Thought
Learn to let go without struggle, simply let go, to be just as you are – no holding on, no attachment, free.
AJAHN CHAH

Attachment Free Just Learn No Simply Struggle
Things are simply the way they are. They don’t give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering?
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Doe Giving Sharp Suffering Way
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
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?
AJAHN CHAH

Ask Blow Happy Illness Loved Master Philosophy Protect Wind
We say that to ‘give up all evil and to develop the good’ is the heart of the Buddha’s teaching.
AJAHN CHAH

Develop Evil Fall Give Up Heart Rain Teach
The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.
AJAHN CHAH

Dharma Phenomena Practice Recognize Within
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
AJAHN CHAH

Bring Complete Go Letting Little Lot Peace

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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