430 quotes found
“When we don’t allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.”
“Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.”
“Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have.”
“We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are in the world is in the category of worst horse.”
“Logic is a net to catch a „fish“ with. And the Truth is like water that can not be caught with net”
“Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together”
“By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scar...”
“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.”
“Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.”
“Most people believe that pain and suffering are synonymous—that one begets the other. A yogi recognizes that pain is an unavoidable aspect of life and that suffering is a choice. Pain is what happe...”
