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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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  Heart, Feelings, Mind

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• Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

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  Book, Reading, Heart

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• Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

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  Letting Go, Littles

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• The heart is just the heart; thoughts and feelings are just thoughts and feelings. Let things be just as they are.

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  Heart, Feelings, Just A Thought

  Various, Louis van Loon, Lily de Silva, Webu Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla (2011). “Collected Bodhi Leaves Volume IV: Numbers 91 to 121”, p.246, Buddhist Publication Society

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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. 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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  Letting Go, Struggle, Burdens Of Life

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• Read yourself, not books. Truth isn't outside, that's only memory, not wisdom. Memory without wisdom is like an empty thermos bottle - if you don't fill it, it's useless.

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  Memories, Book, Bottles

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• If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

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  Suffering, Ifs

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• You should think about your own death 3 times per day at the very least.

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  Thinking, Should

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• Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

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  Rain, Dirty, Sky

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• Learn to see that it is not things that bother us, that we go out to bother them. See the world as a mirror. It is all a reflection of the mind. When you know this, you can grow in every moment, and every experience reveals truth and brings understanding.

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  Reflection, Mirrors, Understanding

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• Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.

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  Views, Suffering, Doe

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• When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.

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  Self, Clinging

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• To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.

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  Giving Up, Evil, Important

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• If you want to understand suffering you must look into the situation at hand. The teachings say that wherever a problem arises it must be settled right there. Where suffering lies is right where non-suffering will arise, it ceases at the place where it arises. If suffering arises you must contemplate right there, you don't have to run away. You should settle the issue right there. One who runs away from suffering out of fear is the most foolish person of all. He will simply increases his stupidity endlessly.

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  Running, Lying, Teaching

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• You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? 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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  Practice, Breathing, Meditation

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• When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing.

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  Confusing, Doe, Life Death

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

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  Sweet, Believe, Mind

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• The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

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  Love, Letting Go, Hate

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• Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

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  Giving, Meditation, Battle

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• Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.

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  Mind, Suffering, Letters

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• But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

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  Glasses, Broken, Minutes

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• In practice, some come to see easily, some with difficulty. But whatever the case, never mind. Difficult or easy, the Buddha said not to be heedless. Just that--don't be heedless. Why? Because life is not certain. 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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  Thinking, Practice, Mind

  Ajahn Chah (2001). “Being Dharma: The Essence of the Buddha's Teachings”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another's word for it. We need to develop meditation so that the understanding arises clearly within oneself. It is not the case that merely by listening to another's explanation our defilements will disappear. When we gain some understanding we need to chew on it again so that we see it for ourselves with certainty: paccattam.

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  Meditation, Understanding, Listening

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• If you haven't wept deeply, you haven't begun to meditate.

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  Buddhist, Freedom, Feelings

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• Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

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  Mindfulness, Ifs

  "A Taste of Freedom: Selected Dhamma Talks".

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