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“Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.”
“By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need m...”
“Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.”
“Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free”
“After all, what Buddhism offers as a solution is universalised indifference - a learning of how to withdraw from too much empathy. This is why Buddhism can so easily turn into the very opposite of ...”
“Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great ad...”
“One way to think of this dignity is to equate when you are on the path with unraveling a ball of yarn. You have wound your sense of self so tightly that it's hard to be anything other than you, a b...”
“On the surface, we come to understand that who we are is something separate from all other objects in the world. This is the first and primary of illusions we are taught to believe after having bee...”
“It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.”
“This constant mental diatribe and the frustrations, worries, insecurities and muscular tension that ensues are the self.”
“That nagging state of constant thought that exists somewhere between the ears and behind the eyes is the self.”
“We tend to view ourselves as this, lying in contradiction with everything that is not ourselves, that.”
“A smile is the most beautiful colour in the world.”
“You only lose what you cling to.”
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
“Now, Kalamas, dont go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought...”
“It is like a lighted torch whose flame can be distributed to ever so many other torches which people may bring along; and therewith they will cook food and dispel darkness, while the original torch...”
“People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of ...”
“Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.”
