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.
AJAHN BRAHMFear is finding fault with the future.
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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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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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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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 is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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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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 life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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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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