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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.

Ajahn Brahm

Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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Beautiful Deep Do Just Love Moment Nothing
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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Lifetime Many People Play Problem Solve Time Trying
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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Blissful Condition Fear Involve Life Love Place Powerful Spiritual Understand
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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Abandonment Alive Come Consciousness Future Mindful Nature Past Reveal
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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Forgive Learn Mistake People Themselves Wise
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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Doing Five Instead Nothing Play Sense Understand World
Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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Beautiful Find Life Love Openness Progress Separate
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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Ability Everything Forgive Forgiveness Love Mother Much Peace Someone Try Yourself
Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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Calm Develop Gym Insight Meditation Mental Muscle Powerful
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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Currency Giving Kindness Life Meaning Selfless Service World
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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Everything Lett Go Living Need Peace World
Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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Happen Life While Worry
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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Celebrate Comunity Contentment Country Desire Feel Freedom Kind Peace People Religious Remarkable Very
It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Being Just People World
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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Bad Create Difficult Meditation Peace Right Strength Such Teacher Thing
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Cool Heart Keep Mind Warm Weather

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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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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