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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When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
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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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Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.
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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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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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Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions
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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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The secret of life is… everything is out of control.
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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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Peace is the most valuable commodity. And it’s free!
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Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires.
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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’s just people being people, the world being the world
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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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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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Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer.
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