When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
AJAHN BRAHMInstead, 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.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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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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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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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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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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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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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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