Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
AJAHN BRAHMPeace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful…the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
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My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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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.
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