“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. It’s about examining the world clearly and carefully, about testing everything and every idea.… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Real Buddhism is not really an “ism.” It’s a process, an awareness, an openness, a spirit of inquiry—not a belief system, or even (as we normally understand it) a religion. It is more accurate to call it “the teaching of… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Socrates pointed out that we carry on as though death were the greatest of all calamities-yet, for all we know, it might be the… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Buddhism is not a belief system. It’s not about accepting certain tenets or believing a set of claims or principles. In fact, it’s quite… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've improved the… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“Normally, a view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our minds. But… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“One day, soon after the Buddha’s enlightenment, a man saw the Buddha walking toward him. The man had not heard of the Buddha, but… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
True freedom doesn't lie in the maximization of choice, but, ironically, is most easily found in a life where there is little choice. — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“See confusion as confusion. Acknowledge suffering as suffering. Feel pain and sorrow and divisiveness. Experience anger or fear or shock for what they are.… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“If you point out the moon to a cat, she probably won’t look at the sky; she’ll come up and sniff your finger.” — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“The buddha-dharma does not invite us to dabble in abstract notions. Rather, the task it presents us with is to attend to what we… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
Whatever the world dishes up, we take it on--not on our own terms, but on the world's. — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
“The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
