32 quotes found
“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.”
“[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?”
“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...”
“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.”
“[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”
“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.”
“If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.”
“Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.”
