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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.

Ajahn Brahm

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
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
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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Creed Democrats Desire Far Freedom Possible Protect Underlying
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
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
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
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
Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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Anyone Can Like Love Sometimes
The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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Control Everything Life Secret
Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Fault Fear Find Future
Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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Circumstance Compassionate Good Longer Mindful Nurture Time
It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Being Just People World
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
Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Anyway Seek Bastard Karma Revenge
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Complain Fault Finding Solution Wisdom

Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.

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