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“Now seen...now gone,The butterfly flits in and outThrough fence-hung flowers;But a life lived so close to themI envy...though it's here and gone.”
“The victorious ones have saidThat emptiness is the relinquishing of all views.For whomever emptiness is a view,That one has achieved nothing.”
“There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers ...”
“Buddha once saw a jackal, a wild dog, run out of the forest where he was staying. It stood still for a while, then it ran into the underbrush, and then out again. Then it ran into a tree hollow, th...”
“There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaskawaiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call ithell or the suffering realmsit is something th...”
“Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.”
“In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around us. Trees, rocks, and plants surrounded us with a living presence as intimate and pulsing as our...”
“You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Bu...”
“This will never come again”
“Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immersed in blossoms.”
“Children I implore youget out of the burning house nowthree carts wait outsideto save you from a homeless liferelax in the village squarebefore the sky everything's emptyno direction is better or w...”
“And this is a Buddhist country? said Matt, This is a country of lovingkindness and compassion? Hah. I think the Americans would call this tough love. That is the paradox of Buddhism, said Ranjit, A...”
“A fearless heart is free of desire, a kind heart finds paradise everywhere.”
“To forgive does not mean to forget.”
“Beyond this life andThis world I'll have it tilMy heart's content:The bright moon that passed overThe horizon before I had my fill.”
“As a friend of mine told me about Real Happiness: you wrote this one in American.”
“O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love.”
“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...”
“Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...”
“And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, n...”
