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“Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.”
“Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our mi...”
“Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.”
“With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.”
“As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, part...”
“No one looks or feels attractive when angry.”
“Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspe...”
“Buddha rst taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.”
“To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.”
“With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.”
“Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for your Zazen practice and or even your life. If you can let go, greatl...”
“The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.”
“Heaven is the natural spaciousness of our mind before we make it small with self-protection.”
“Our senses are often the gateway to our stories.”
“There was something important being overlooked, they argued, in the mainstreaming of meditation - a central plank in the Buddhist platform: compassion.”
“Nearly all samurai practice Zen - it is the Way of Enlightenment." "Possibly the light of Zen is so strong that it has blinded me to its virtue." Yoshitoki smiled. "It is very good discipline for t...”
“Lelia gave a dharma talk about letting go of self-definition: I can't do this because of what happened to me in my childhood; I can't do that because I am very shy; I could never go there because I...”
“By learning to observe without becoming involved, the pattern of stimulus-response which underlies most human behaviour can be broken. Little by little the realisation dawns that one is free to cho...”
“This perception of impermanence gives rise to the knowledge that even those things which seem most intimate to us such as our emotions are transient states which come and go. From detached ob...”
“To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang o...”
