NEW YEAR BLESSINGS FROM AJAHN JAYASARO
"So I would like to wish everyone a very happy new year."
"The new year will be full of bumps and ups and downs and difficulties and surprises, and things that were better than you thought they would be, and things that would be worse. They are worse than you thought they would be. Whatever it will be, it won’t be what you think it is right now. But I would like to offer my blessings and my best wishes that you can have a strength of mindfulness, a strength of wisdom, and have the kindness and the compassion to be able to make the best of this new year."
"As Buddhists, we look on our experience as the raw material for our practice that we are not the prey. We are not defined by our past. We are not defined by anything outside of ourselves. That we do have this capacity to find an inner freedom through following the Buddha’s teachings. So I would like to wish you all to find some peace and joy in your lives in this coming year and to penetrate more deeply the profound teachings of the Buddha, so that you have a true refuge in your life and a means to really accomplish the most profound purpose of this human birth which is to realize liberation from all sufferings."
~ Ajahn Jayasāro
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