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“The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.”
“Suppose a man threw into the sea a yoke with one hole in it, and the east wind carried it to the west, and the west wind carried it to the east, and the north wind carried it to the south, and the ...”
“What is the happiness ? Is it really happiness ? Nothing stable, just happen, stay and decay... Everything is impermanence, dissatisfaction and nothing can ever belong to itself”
“So, without telling any of my Zen-snob buddies, I liked to pretend everything was the Pure Land, that my life was already perfect as it was.”
“Without hope, Chd practitioners are freed from the limits of hope and fear; having cut the ropes of grasping, definitely enlightened, where does one go?”
“The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.”
“I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer," muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.”
“Karma means action. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.”
“Everyone burns, as the Buddha says, in their own way. Some burn with anger, some with lust, some with a desire for vengeance, some with fear. But inside us burn many fires, not just one. We are leg...”
“You have compassion but by itself it is not enough. It is almost as if you carry around inside you some dead thing. Some heavy black cinder in your heart that burdens you; a ponderous anchor that t...”
“There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped a petal- brushstroke of purple on fine white cloth. Rinpoche drank the last sip of ...”
“[The Buddha] is not dividing himself into worthy and unworthy pieces; he is one being, indivisible, immune from the tendency to double back and beat up on himself. He has seen the worst in himself ...”
“To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.”
“Look for the heart of a tradition in the actions of its humble servants and selfless teachers. Listen and let the teachings be borne out, or set aside, based on your experience.”
“But even though theres no more hope, again theres no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if theres no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let go, how wonder...”
“In what is now known as Bodh Gayaa Buddhist temple stands beside an ancient pipal, descended from that bodhi tree, or enlightenment tree, and I watched the rising of the morning star and came away ...”
“We are not interested in developing eternity or immortality, or in preventing being sick or being born. We are interested in doing something while we are alive, while we are breathing, while we can...”
“When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. Y...”
“Jvaka, I say that there are three instances in which meat should not be eaten: when it is seen, heard, or suspected [that the living being has been slaughtered for oneself]. I say that meat should ...”
“For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.”
