Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
AJAHN BRAHMLife is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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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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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’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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