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“I shall never forget the peace of his hermitage amidst the eternal snows and the lesson he taught me: that we cannot face the Great Void before we have the strength and greatness to fill it with ou...”
“Even when dreaming, if the sentient beings who dwell in the three lower realms are witnessed, then at that moment one should pray to sever the continuity of their negat”
“Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and unshakable nature equanimity is not dull, heartless and frigid. Its perfection is not due to an emo...”
“You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,The crackle of their funeral pyres,”
“We have to learn the art of stopping - stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us. When an emotion rushes through us like a storm, we have no pea...”
“[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.”
“Truth... has no obligation to console you.”
“Individuals create themselves through their moral choices. By freely and repeatedly choosing certain sorts of things, an individual shapes their character, and through their character their future.”
“itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling”
“[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.”
“The Buddhist ideal of awakening implies that we can sever our links with our evolutionary past. We can raise ourselves from the sleep in which other animals pass their lives. Our illusions dissolve...”
“all living creatures are entitled to respect in their own right, not simply because of the utility they may possess for other humans.”
“The self is a self-made Procrustean bedof little comfort”
“Zen has a pronounced iconoclastic tendency, and regards the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening, relying instead on humour, spontaneity, unconventi...”
“Is it necessary to believe in the existence of the six realms and the heavens and hells to be a Buddhist? Not necessarily. It is possible to interpret these as, perhaps, referring to other dimensio...”
“In all these assaults on the senses there is a great wisdom not only about the addictiveness of pleasures but about their ephemerality. The essence of addiction, after all, is that pleasure tends ...”
“All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.”
“The bells of the Gion monastery in India echo with the warning that all things are impermanent. The blossoms of the sala trees teach us through their hues that what flourishes must fade. The proud ...”
“Some Buddhists have criticized secular Buddhism because they think it waters down Buddhism. I like to think of it as adding Buddhist flavoring to the sparkling water of secularism.”
“...you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it'...”
