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Experience Quotes by Henepola Gunaratana
- The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
- Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are…
- We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and…
- By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.
- Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.
- The brain does not manufacture thoughts unless we stimulate it with habitual verbalizing. When we train ourselves by constant practice to stop verbalizing, the brain…
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