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- The challenge of warriorship is to live fully in the world as it is and to find within this world, with all its paradoxes, the…
- Enlightenment is like witnessing the brilliant sun for the first time in the morning. It is like seeing the beautiful flowers that grow in the…
- Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
- The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.…
- We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and…
- In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than…
- If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt…
- You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the…
- Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things.…
- In the cocoon, there is no idea of light at all, until we experience some longing for openness, some longing for something other than the…
- It's all Ati. Now, let's be practical.
- Very beautiful situations have developed using chaos as part of the enlightened approach. There is chaos of all kinds developing all the time... If you…
- We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our…
- While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your…
- If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all.…
- When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and…
- In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your…
- Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…
- We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy,…
- Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
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