Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
AJAHN BRAHMLove is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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Love, oneness, is no separation between you and life. It is a progressive letting go, a progressive not fault finding.
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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 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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What are people searching for in life? God. In the christian scriptures, it says ‘Be still and know you are God.’ What is this? You are peace, compassion, truth, Love, freedom. Real love.
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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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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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