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“Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn’t develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-imp...”
“Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.”
“When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in...”
“Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from ...”
“There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.”
“At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.”
“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.”
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things...”
“Recollection of death also serves as a useful preparation for the time when one actually has to face death. As the concluding exercise among the body contemplations, a regular recollection of death...”
“The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one ...”
“We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.”
“For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannon build a sound basis of co...”
“Rather than going after these walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those walls. We touch them, and smell them and get to ...”
“Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.”
“desires are not killed by fulfilling them”
“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...”
“At last the bottom fell out.No more water in the pail.No more moon in the water.”
“The very fact that you can observe this thinking mind is proof that you are not this thinking mind.”
“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.”
