Looking For Dharma

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1. Slide 1: Looking for Dharma By Ajahn Chah
2. Slide 2: The Dharma belongs to no one, it has no owner
3. Slide 3: It arises in the world when a world manifests, yet stand alone as the Truth.
4. Slide 4: It is always here, unmoving, limitless … … for all who seek it.
5. Slide 5: Like water underground, whoever digs a well finds it. Yet, whether or not you dig, it is always here, underlying all things.
6. Slide 6: In our search for Dharma, sometimes we search too far, we overreach, over looking the essence.
7. Slide 7: The Dharma is not out there … … to be gained by a long voyage viewed through a telescope.
8. Slide 8: It is right here, nearest to us, our true essence - \"non self\"
9. Slide 9: When we see this essence, we see that good, bad, pleasure, pain, light, dark, self, other … … are just mere empty phenomenon.
10. Slide 10: When we come to know this essence and understand their true nature then detachment naturally arises.
11. Slide 11: We learn to practice how \"not to attain\", and say \"Nothing is me or mine, all is impermanent.\"
12. Slide 12: True Dharma, after all, has no going forward, no going backward, and no standing still.
13. Slide 13: It's not about looking for good or bad or anything at all. It's not about being anything.
14. Slide 14: But when you see happiness and displeasure arising and not follow either, then you've discovered true joy
15. Slide 15: This is the joy The true joy of true happiness, of the Buddha.
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