Meditation Quote by Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au

What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a…

— Ben Aaronovitch

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

— John Keats

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam…

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Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what…

— Denis Johnson

When you have an empty mind, you are prepared for the next thing that happens. It's like to be part of a spiritual practice…

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“Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached…

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No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

— John Irving

The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to master practical…

— Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Monks, one thing, if practiced and made much of, conduces to great thrill, great profit, great security after the toil, to mindfulness and self-possession,…

— Gautama Buddha

So too, monks, I saw the ancient path, the ancient road traveled by the Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past. And what is that…

— Gautama Buddha

“You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will…

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I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

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