It’s just people being people, the world being the world
AJAHN BRAHMIt then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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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 is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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.
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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