Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
AJAHN BRAHMMeditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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