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 BRAHMEveryone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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 is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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It’s just people being people, the world being 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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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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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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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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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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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