Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
AJAHN BRAHMThe secret of life is… everything is out of control.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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 then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
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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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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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The ability to love yourself so much that you forgive everything and you are at peace with yourself like a mother loves a child, not trying to be someone.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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