Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
AJAHN BRAHMMeditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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 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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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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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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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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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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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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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