Ajahn Brahm on buddhist
Ajahn Brahm30 quotes“Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of 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.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm 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.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm 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.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm 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 BrahmAjahn Brahm Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm 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.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
Ajahn BrahmAjahn Brahm It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.
Akkineni NagarjunaAkkineni Nagarjuna When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah Suttas are not meant to be ‘sacred scriptures’ that tell us what to believe.
Ajahn SumedhoAjahn Sumedho Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah If you haven’t wept deeply, you haven’t begun to meditate.
Ajahn ChahAjahn Chah The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable.
Ajahn SumedhoAjahn Sumedho The best way to deal with excessive thinking is to just listen to it, to listen to the mind.
Ajahn AmaroAjahn Amaro Buddhists say that a fixed smile, however false, lights up the soul.
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