36 quotes found
“This will never come again”
“Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.”
“[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.”
“We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here.”
“Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.”
“The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.”
“We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.”
“The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are whol...”
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we actually experience, right in this moment. You don't have to look "o...”
“What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.”
“As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. An...”
“The buddha-dharma is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes , not according to some program of dos and ...”
“[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.”
“The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.”
“[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.”
“Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's.”
“[W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly t...”
“[W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay;”
“There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind”
“[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?”
“How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?”
“Truth is not something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]”
“[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. [T]his can never match Reality, because the world isn't frozen.”
