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| The Three Marks of Existence
As your mindfulness develops, your resentment for the change, your dislike for the unpleasant experiences, your greed for the pleasant experiences, and the notion of selfhood will be replaced by the deeper awareness of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness, and selflessness. This knowledge of reality in your experience helps you to foster a more calm, peaceful, and mature attitude toward your life. – Henepola Gunaratana, “Sitting Still” |
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| Compassion is not foolish. It doesn’t just go along with what others want so they don’t feel bad. There is a yes in compassion, and there is also a no, said with the same courage of heart. Buddhists call this the fierce sword of compassion.
– Jack Kornfield, Mindfulness Daily |
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| What Nature Teaches
Nature teaches us simplicity and contentment, because in its presence we realize we need very little to be happy. – Mark Coleman, “A Breath of Fresh Air” |
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| The Middle Way
Just as meditation requires an understanding of the practice as well as determination to carry it out, likewise it requires a sense of balance to determine when to push ourselves harder and when to step back and relax where we are, without falling into either of two extremes. – Lama Dudjom Dorjee, “Heartfelt Advice” |
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| Freeing Ourselves from Ignorance
The buddhadharma is optimistic, because it says we all eventually will free ourselves from ignorance. And that liberation is very much within our creative control every minute of every day–your life is a work in progress. – Interview with Charles Johnson by E. Ethelbert Miller, “Black Coffee Buddhism” |
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| Stick with It
This is why we practice meditation–so that we can treat ourselves more compassionately; improve our relationships with friends, family, and community; live lives of greater connection; and, even in the face of challenges, stay in touch with what we really care about so we can act in ways that are consistent with our values. – Sharon Salzberg, “Sticking with It” |
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| I always say that everyone is crazy, especially you and me; that helps me take things more lightly and maintain my sense of humor. Life ain’t much fun when we take ourselves too seriously. – Lama Surya Das – Lama Surya Das, New Dharma Talk 2011 |
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| “Stories can give our suffering meaning, our dying depth, our grieving perspective..”
– Roshi Joan Halifax from Being With Dying |
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| Dualism and Swinging Doors
Our usual understanding of life is dualistic: you and I, this and that, good and bad. But actually these discriminations are themselves the awareness of the universal existence. ‘You’ means to be aware of the universe in the form of you, and ‘I’ means to be aware of it in the form of I. You and I are just swinging doors. – Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, “Breathing” |
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| Find the Feeling
Buddhanature and the natural state are not just made up of happy, sweet emotions; buddhanature includes everything. It’s the calm, and the disturbed, and the roiled up, and the still; it’s the bitter and the sweet, the comfortable and the uncomfortable. Buddhanature includes opening to all of these things, and it’s found in the midst of all of them. – Pema Chodron, “Meditating with Emotions” |
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