Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
AJAHN BRAHMThe selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
More Ajahn Brahm Quotes
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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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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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When life is good do not take it for granted as it will pass.
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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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Silence is so much more productive of wisdom and clarity in thinking.
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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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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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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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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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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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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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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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