Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
AJAHN BRAHMUnderstand 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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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 is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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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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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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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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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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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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