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Certainty implies choice. But there is no real choice in our lives. There is order in the chaos and it is not up to us to understand why everything happens the way it that it...

—Mohadesa Najumi

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what is not true does not exist in this moment.

—Bert McCoy

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Don’t be so loyal to your mind; the mind is not loyal to You.

—Bert McCoy

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Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

—Bert McCoy

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Boundaries are nothing more than imaginary lines drawn-up by delusional leaders and power hungry tyrants who wish to segregate the population into more easily controlled segments in any case. -If you really think about it...

—Andrew James Pritchard

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Dare to live by letting go.

—Tom Althouse

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I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

—Bjork

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Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

—Allan Lokos

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To forgive does not mean to condone.

—Allan Lokos

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On considering these instances it is indubitably clear that sati has a crucial role to fulfill in the realm of samatha. This might be why the Cūḷavedalla Sutta speaks of satipaṭṭhāna as the “cause” of...

—Anālayo

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For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.

—Alan W. Watts

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This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

—Chris Matakas

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Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

—Francis Harold

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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost...

—Daisaku Ikeda

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Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance

—Dalai Lama

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Whatever a monk keeps pursuing with his thinking and pondering, that becomes the inclination of his awareness.

—Gautama Buddha

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Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on...

—Huang Po

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Refutations of the views of inherently existent production are not just refutations of rival systems but should be taken as a branch of the process of overcoming one’s own innate sense that things are inherently...

—Jeffrey Hopkins

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The application of this knife, the division of the world into parts and the building of this structure, is something everybody does. All the time we are aware of millions of things around us –...

—Robert M.

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The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

—Sharon Salzberg

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How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

—Kentetsu Takamori

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When all that’s left of us is the pure untainted consciousness without form, we’ll know what it means when the last human breath expires.

—Zeena Schreck

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This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

—Stephen Batchelor

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We find what’s in our own heads.

—T. Scott

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As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa’s peak experiences, ‘They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.’

—Pema Chödrön

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Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

—Tom Althouse

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Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern...

—Richard J.

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Whereever you are, you are one with the clouds and one with the sun and the stars you see. You are one with everything. That is more true than I can say, and more true...

—Shunryu Suzuki

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Being a senior doesn’t automatically make one wise but the wise & foolish alike have things to teach us.

—Allan Lokos

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We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

—Allan Lokos

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Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: “You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don’t find time to practice,...

—Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel

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But even though there´s no more hope, again there´s no need to harm yourself, despite your feeling as if there´s no ground beneath you and no choice in any direction. But when we do let...

—Jakusho Kwong

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The idea of Zen is to catch life as it flows. There is nothing extraordinary or mysterious about Zen. I raise my hand ; I take a book from the other side of the desk...

—D.T. Suzuki

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Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it or whether we are to take the lead and create...

—Daisaku Ikeda

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Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has caused its arising. Once this conditioned nature of feelings is fully apprehended, detachment...

—feelings

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I shall live here in the rains,There in winter,Elsewhere in summer,” muses the fool,Not aware of the nearness of death.

—Gautama Buddha

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O snailClimb Mount FujiBut slowly, slowly!

—Kobayashi Issa

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We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

—Ole Nydahl

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Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

—Mark Epstein

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Because the development of inner calm & energy happens completely within & isn’t dependent on another person or a particular situation, we begin to feel a resourcefulness and independence that is quite beautiful—and a huge...

—Sharon Salzberg

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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

—Sharon Salzberg

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On the Brevity of Our TiesTies in this world last only for a time. We are husband and wife, parent and child, for a short period only. Once this reality sinks in, we cannot help...

—Kentetsu Takamori

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Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or...

—Swami Bhaskarananda

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Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

—Robert A.F. Thurman

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The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

—Suman Jyoty

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bored buddha.” In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

—Pema Chödrön

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Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there can be no life. Selflessness is the...

—Thích Nhất

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When you die, you want to die a beautiful death. But what makes for a beautiful death is not always clear. To die without suffering, to die without causing trouble to others, to die leaving...

—Shinmon Aoki

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Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.

—Yongey Mingyur

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Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.

—Amit Ray

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