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. .
AJAHN BRAHMOur modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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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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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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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