It is remarkable that in such countries people do not feel very free. The second kind of freedom, freedom from desires, is celebrated only in some religious communities. It celebrates contentment, peace that is free from desires.
AJAHN BRAHMIf you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people’s freedom to realise their desires, as far as this is possible.
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. .
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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.
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Understand the place of love in a spiritual life. A powerful and blissful type of love has no conditions, no ownership and no people involved. Be free from fear. Be who you are. That is love.
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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It’s the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you.
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