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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…
• The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear.…
• When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
• Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the…
• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we…
• Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.
• When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
• Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
• These days people don't search for the Truth. People study simply in order to find knowledge necessary to make a living, raise…
• Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.
• Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest…
• Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else,…

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