In our practice, once we have contemplated the drawbacks of conditional love and the beauty and nobility of the unconditioned mind, then we will have courage and faith in the value of our own development ... - Ajahn Jayasāro

The Buddha did not teach by using the threat of hell or the promise of heaven ... - Ajahn Jayasāro

Ignorance (avijjā) is not knowing, or having wrong knowledge. We lack an accurate, unbiased experience of the reality of life. - Ajahn Jayasāro

Love can lessen our selfishness. - Ajahn Jayasāro

Craving or tanka is the ringleader of the defilements. - Ajahn Jayasāro

Dhamma practice involves looking closely at our mind, its thoughts and emotions ... - Ajahn Jayasāro

Another difficulty that may accompany love is discomfort with our partner’s families ... - Ajahn Jayasāro

Have you noticed that a lot of people in love suffer precisely because they assumed that love would mean an end to suffering, that it would resolve something? - Ajahn Jayasāro

The kind of love that people are most interested in is surely romantic love. Nearly everyone hopes to be lucky, meet a soul-mate or a good life-partner, then to live together happily ever after. Truly loving someone and being loved truly by that person is the most popular of dreams. - Ajahn Jayasāro

Love for our parents and for our children is a natural attachment that is shadowed by suffering. It is a suffering that is for the most part willingly borne, but nevertheless we should be interested in learning whether there is any aspect of that suffering that we might relinquish without affecting our ability to be a good son or daughter or a good parent. - Ajahn Jayasāro

Love is a part of life which we need to imbue with wisdom and understanding. - Ajahn Jayasāro