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• If you listen to the Dhamma teachings but don't practice you're like a ladle in a soup pot. The ladle is in the soup pot every day, but it doesn't know the taste of the soup. You must reflect and meditate.

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  Teaching, Practice, Soup

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• If you let go completely you will have complete peace.

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  Letting Go, Dharma, Ifs

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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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• At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

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• The ultimate truth is like the flavour of an apple which you can't see with the eye or hear with the ear. The only way to experience it is to put the teachings into practice. Once you taste it, you are no longer in any doubt about its flavour and you do not have to ask anyone else. The problem is solved.

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  Teaching, Eye, Apples

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• The Dhamma has to sink deeply into the mind so that whatever we do, the mind has always goodness within it. All the ways of making merit are aiming at this. Goodness lies in the right view that is established in the mind. Then we don't have to celebrate it or let anybody know about it, simply let the mind have firm confidence in the goodness and keep going like this.

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  Lying, Views, Mind

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• We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.

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  Giving Up, Rain, Fall

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• Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.

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  Sleep, Meditation Practice, Breathing

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• The heart is the only book worth reading.

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  Book, Reading, Heart

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• Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

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  Suffering, Bodhisattva, Ifs

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• A madman and an arahant both smile, but the arahant knows why while the madman doesn't.

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  Madmen, Knows

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• To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

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  Mean, Practice, Oneself

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• Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

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  Fall, Light, Meditation

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• When we conquer ourselves, then everything will be conquered: oneself, others, and all the sense objects as well, coming in by way of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body -- it will all get conquered like this.

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  Eye, Noses, Ears

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• If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

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  Ifs

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• The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you.

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  Dharma, Within You, Uncertainty

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• We protect virtue so that virtue will protect us.

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  Virtue, Protect

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• If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.

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  Giving Up, Quality, Needs

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• The Dhamma has to be found by looking into your own heart and seeing that which is true and that which is not, that which is balanced and that which is not balanced.

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  Heart, Found, Balanced

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• Know and watch your heart. It's pure but emotions come to colour it.

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  Heart, Watches, Emotion

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• You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.

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  Needs, World, Way

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• If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

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  Numbers, Meditation, Cried

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• The mind is intrinsically tranquil. Out of this tranquility, anxiety and confusion are born. If one sees and knows this confusion, then the mind is tranquil once more.

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  Confusion, Anxiety, Mind

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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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  Meditation, Mind, Woods

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• All that I have said up to now has merely been words.
  When people come to see me, I have to say something.
  But it is best not to speak about these matters too much.
  Better to begin practice without delay.
  I am like a good friend inviting you to go somewhere.
  Do not hesitate, just get going. You won't regret it.

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  Regret, Good Friend, Practice

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