Ajahn Brahm talks about truth

Ajahn Brahm talks about different sects of Buddhism, how it all came to be this way and what it means. Ultimately it's all the same cake, just different icing on top.

Ajahn Brahm: While tolerance is widely regarded as a positive quality, Ajahn Brahm points out that tolerance always contains an element of passive disdain for it's subject. More liberating for the beholder (as well as the subject) is the deep investigation of all phenomena. An active, searching approach will point the contemplative toward profound understanding and acceptance rather than mere tolerance. ...

Ajahn Brahm - Buddhist reflections on social, political and environmental action leading towards the creation of a better world.

Ajahn Brahm talks about fear of physical discomfort, fear of criticism and fear of the future and there is no need to be fearful.

Ajahn Brahm: For those abused and wronged is happiness actually possible? Attachment to painful emotions, such as grief, anger, bitterness, the notion of a wounded self with a distinct identity: all these can become a perpetual prison...

Ajahn Brahm: Nibbana is not something that can be predictably acquired through sheer effort. Actually it more or less happens automatically, the more one lets go of doing, gives up the notion of a distinct 'I' and acts from the knowledge of the oneness of all beings and things. Out of these insights compassionate energy and happiness arises. Nibbana, the ultimate happiness.

Developing the mind, Ajahn Brahmali