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“Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.”
“In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go.”
“The left-hand path adept seeks to liberate him/herself from passive subjection to the illusory nature of Maya, thus freeing the consciousness from the binds of self-created delusion.”
“Bhikkhus, the teaching is merely a vehicle to describe the truth. Dont mistake it for the truth itself. A finger pointing at the moon is notthe moon. The finger is needed to know where to look for ...”
“This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not, the Buddha taught. All the conditions have come together in such a way that we are where we are, and we are what we are. To hold on to fe...”
“In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at ...”
“The Buddhas principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only way to fully understand the bodhichitta teachings, the onl...”
“Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant o...”
“The path to enlightenment is really very simple - all we need to do is stop cherishing ourself and learn to cherish others. All other spiritual realisations will naturally follow from this.”
“There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It wa...”
“Cause and effect, in the Buddhist sense, though. Any action you undertake creates a seed that will sprout when the conditions are right, creating a good or bad result.""Do you believe in it?"He doe...”
“Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.”
“When I was young, I lacked certainty, too, he says. I have the certainty, now, of not needing certainty. I have the certainty, of uncertainty. The peace, with being uncertain. All is good. All is h...”
“The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?”
“Love has no meaning without understanding”
“Buddha is our inherent natureour buddha natureand what that means is that if youre going to grow up fully, the way that it happens is that you begin to connect with the intelligence that you alread...”
“There are some among the so-called elite who are overbearing and arrogant. I want to foster leaders, not elitists.”
“When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?”
“To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of for...”
“On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle su...”
