#ajahn brahm

[kamala-laxman]

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know. Ajahn Brahm

[ramapani-blog]

Ajahn Brahm is a British-born Buddhist monk, teacher, and author, best known as the abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery in Western Australia and a leading figure in the Thai Forest Tradition.

"When it’s hot, you learn to be with the heat. When it’s cold, you learn to be with the cold. Peace is not found in changing the world, but in changing the way you relate to it."

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[mountain-sage]

"When you have abandoned all past and all future, it is as if you have come alive.

You are here. You are mindful.

This is the first stage of meditation, just this mindfulness sustained only in the present.

Practicing even this stage, you have done a great deal.

You have let go of the first burden that stops deep meditation.

So it is important to put forth a lot of effort to make this first stage strong, firm, and well established."

—Ajahn Brahm in KINDFULNESS

[terracemuse]

[cobotis]

Restlessness in meditation is always a sign of not finding joy in what’s here... That’s what restlessness is, going around looking for something else to do, something else to think about, somewhere else to go—anywhere but here and now...

~ Ajahn Brahm

[abiding-in-peace]

When life is good, do not take it for granted as it will pass. Be mindful, be compassionate and nurture the circumstances that find you in this good time so it will last longer. When life falls apart, always remember that this too will pass. Life will have its unexpected turns

Ajahn Brahm

[squirrelspidersquotations]

"Love is the stranger with a strange language. Love is the language that cannot be said or heard." Rumi

"Happiness will come when you bring happiness to others." Gyalwang Drukpa

"You will know you have forgiven the past when you no longer react to it." Buddhist wisdom

"Learn who you are. Unlearn who they told you to be." Sylvester McNutt

"It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living." Eckhart Tolle

"The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. So look deeply at life as it is." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Negativity is never the optimum way of dealing with any situation. In fact, in most cases it keeps you stuck in it, blocking real change." Eckhart Tolle

"A very good practice for preventing anger in the first place is to become masterful at listening." Gyalwang Drukpa

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool." Albert Camus

"Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words." Rumi

"Learn to watch and wait. Emotions come and go like waves on the shore, so if you can be mindful of them you will understand where they come from and also that they are impermanent, like everything." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Pain is all about non-acceptance." Ajahn Brahm

"The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it." Sufi saying

"Give quietly; don't make a song and dance about it." Gyalwang Drukpa

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers." Charles W. Eliot

"If the Universe put a dream in your heart, it has every intention for you to make it happen." Anonymous

"If you disagree with someone, make a conscious effort to step into their shoes and see the situation from their point of view. Even if you continue to disagree, you will gain some understanding." Gyalwang Drukpa

"People trying to change the world to make themselves feel better are doing a service neither for the world nor themselves." Anonymous

"Practice leaving things be. Let others be themselves—who are we to judge?—and let us concentrate on improving our own minds and our own lives instead." Gyalwang Drukpa

"There is no such thing as permanence at all. Everything is constantly changing. Everything is in a flux. Because you cannot face the impermanence of all relationships, you invent sentiments, romance, and dramatic emotions to give them certainty. Therefore you are always in conflict." U.G. Krishnamurti

"Love invites you to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any question. To seek any answer. To share any thought. To worship any God." Neale Donald Walsch

[zenwords]

If you know how to let go and be at peace, you know everything you need to know about living in the world.

— Ajahn Brahm