11 quotes found
“At the last stages of the journey, theres no journey at all.”
“At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.”
“Theres no path to liberation that doesnt pass through the shadow.”
“There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.”
“What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.”
“All relaxation does is allow the truth to be felt. The mind is cleared, like a dirty window wiped clean, and the magnitude of what we might ordinarily take for granted inspires tears.”
“Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they arent mine, are at least diffe...”
“We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesnt cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a d...”
“Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like youre the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But youre not! There are generations o...”
“It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.”
“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination, of mental formations leading to desire leading t...”
