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If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

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Ajahn Chah
Age: 73 †
Born: 1918
Born: June 17
Died: 1992
Died: January 16
Bhikkhu
Ajahn Chah Subhaddo
Chicken
Chickens
Suffer
Suffering
Duck
Ducks

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