Becoming Quote by Ajahn Sumedho Download Open image “Instead of becoming the world’s expert on Buddhism, just let go, let go, let go.” — Ajahn Sumedho ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Buddhism Experts Just let go Letting go World
Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet. — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-al ready-are. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“You must cease concerning yourself with the dialects of Buddhism and instead learn how to look into your own mind in seclusion.” — Roshi P. Kapleau Copy Share Image
“Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is an essential tenet of Buddhism that we can begin to change the world by first changing how we look at the world.” — Greg Boyle Copy Share Image
The problem is grasping the clock. So what do I do? Let it go, lay it aside - put it down gently without any… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
The goal lies away from the sensual world. It is not a rejection of the sensual world, but understanding it so well that we… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Of course we can always imagine more perfect conditions, how it should be ideally, how everyone should behave. But it is not our task… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
The empty mind - the pure mind - is not a blank, zero-land, where you're not feeling or caring about anything. It's an effulgence… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
The mind of an enlightened human being is flexible and adaptable. The mind of the ignorant person is conditioned and fixed. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
Suttas are not meant to be 'sacred scriptures' that tell us what to believe. One should read them, listen to them, think about them,… — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore. — Ajahn Sumedho Copy Share Image
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The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
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