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AJAHN BRAHMHow many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. .
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How many times have you tried to solve “the problem”? you’ll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. .
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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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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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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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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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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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