Ajahn Brahm citations

Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera , de son vrai nom Peter Betts, est né à Londres le 7 août 1951. Ajahn Brahm est l'abbé du monastère Bodhinyana, de Serpentine , le directeur spirituel de la Buddhist Society of Western Australia, le conseiller spirituel de la Buddhist Society of Victoria, le conseiller spirituel de la Buddhist Society of South Australia, le patron spirituel de la Buddhist Fellowship de Singapour, et le patron spirituel du Bodhikusuma Centre de Sydney. Wikipedia

✵ 7. août 1951

Ajahn Brahm: Citations en anglais

“There are two kinds of freedom to be found in our world: the freedom of desires, and the freedom from desires. Our modern Western culture only recognizes the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront of national constitutions and bills of human rights. One can say that the underlying creed of most Western democracies is to protect their people's freedom to realize their desires, as far as this is possible. 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. It is remarkable that in such abstemious communities like my monastery, people feel free.”

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Who Ordered This Truckload of Dung (2005).