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• Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

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  Letting Go, Remember You, Remembers You

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• One man watches a river flow by. If he does not wish it to flow, to change ceaselessly in accord with its nature, he will suffer great pain. Another man understands that nature of the river is to change constantly, regardless of his likes and dislikes, and therefore he does not suffer. 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.

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  Pain, Men, Self

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• When the heart truly understands, it lets go of everything.

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  Letting Go, Heart

  Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.245, Buddhist Publication Society

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• To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'

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  Buddhism, Phrases, Actuality

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• We don't meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.

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  Heaven, Suffering, Ends

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• 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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  Cobras, May, Poisonous

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• Why are we born? We are born so that we will not have to be born again.

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  Born Again, Born

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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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  Likes And Dislikes, Stills, Following

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• We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

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  Letting Go, Practice, Enlightenment

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• If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go.
  When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.
  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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  Meditation, Mind, Looks

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• We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. 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. If we practise like this and develop mindfulness continuously, wisdom arises quickly and this is a fast way of practice.

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  Lying, Practice, Mind

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• These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise families and look after themselves, that's all. To them, being smart is more important than being wise!

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  Wise, Smart, Order

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• To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.

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  Running, Buddhism, Meditation Practice

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• Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit.
  You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable.
  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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  Jobs, Doors, Visits You

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• Look at your own mind. The one who carries things thinks he's got things, but the one who looks on sees only the heaviness. Throw away things, lose them, and find lightness.

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  Thinking, Mind, Looks

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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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  Moving, Heart, Light

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• Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

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  Attitude, Lying, Eye

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• 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. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.

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  Running, Evil, Mind

  Achaan Chah, Ajahn Chah (2006). “A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks”, p.48, Buddhist Publication Society

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• 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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  Mind, Quiet, Moments

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• Wisdom is in yourself, just like a sweet ripe mango is already in a young green one.

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  Sweet, Green, Young

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• People go through life blindly, ignoring death like revellers at a party feasting on fine foods. They ignore that later they will have to go to the toilet, so they do not bother to find out where there is one. When nature finally calls, they have no idea where to go and are in a mess.

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  Party, Ideas, People

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• Time is our present breath.

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  Time, Breaths

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• 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, Meditation, Overcoming

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• Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

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  Letting Go, Generosity, Expectations

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• If it shouldn't happen, it wouldn't happen.

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  Happens, Ifs

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