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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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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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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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