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.
AJAHN BRAHMComplaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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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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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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The selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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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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