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“Theres no path to liberation that doesnt pass through the shadow.”
“What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.”
“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.”
“At the last stages of the journey, theres no journey at all.”
“Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: "You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don...”
“Since beginners can only remain in contact with the object of observation for short periods, initially one should meditate in brief sessions even eighteen times a day; in due course stability will ...”
“In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.”
“Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.”
“Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.”
“Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.”
“Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.”
“Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.”
“The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.”
“Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas sta...”
“Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?”
“Maybe its something which cant be defined, Enso Roshi says. Maybe its a question, to be lived.”
“The mind is limitless, in its creations.”
