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Don’t weigh the present moment down with more than it can take.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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The Courage to Set Yourself Free (evening Dhamma talk, April 24, 2021); His own complete sentence about not adding remembered and anticipated pain to the present. Full official transcript read; archive identifies the evening talks as Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s. Not one of the Ajaan Lee quotations recounte
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The Courage to Set Yourself Free (evening Dhamma talk, April 24, 2021)
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  • dhammatalks.orgChecked using manual, 20 October 2026The Courage to Set Yourself Free (evening Dhamma talk, April 24, 2021); His own complete sentence about not adding remembered and anticipated pain to the present. Full official transcript read; archive identifies the evening talks as Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s. Not one of the Ajaan Lee quotations recounte

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