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 BRAHMFear is finding fault with the future.
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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Fear is finding fault with the future.
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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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Just do nothing and love this moment. Its very beautiful and very deep.
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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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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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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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It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constituitions and bills of human rights.
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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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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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Love is not liking somebody. Anyone can do that. Love is loving things that sometimes you don’t like.
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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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