Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
AJAHN BRAHMThe selfless giving, the service, the kindness which you give out into this world that is the currency of (the) meaning (of life).
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Why seek revenge? Karma is going to get the bastards anyway
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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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It’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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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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Life is what’s happening while you’re worrying.
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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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