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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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 then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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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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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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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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When life falls apart always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns.
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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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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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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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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. .
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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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