Letting go is an important practice in everyday life, as well as on the path of liberation. Daily life provides innumerable small and large occasions for letting go of plans, desires, preferences, and opinions. It can be as simple as when the weather changes, and we abandon plans we had for the day. Learning how to do so skillfully is essential to a happy life. - Gil Fronsdal
The practice of letting go is often mistrusted. One good reason for this mistrust is because, without wisdom, it is easy to let go of the wrong things; for example, when we let go of such healthy pursuits as exercising or eating well, instead of our clinging to those pursuits. - Gil Fronsdal
If you cannot, for whatever reason, be of help to others, at least don’t harm them. Consider yourself a tourist. Think of the world as it is seen from space, so small and insignificant yet so beautiful. Could there really be anything to be gained from harming others during our stay here? - Dalai Lama 14th
Can we stop idolizing wealthy people on TV and social media who seem to always be on a yacht or exotic beach? Instead, let’s find people enjoying the richness of the world around them, from rivers and streams to libraries and theaters. - Justin Whitaker
Compassion is one of the principal things that make our lives meaningful. It is the source of all lasting happiness and joy. And it is the foundation of a good heart, the heart of one who acts out of a desire to help others. - Dalai Lama 14th
We need to accept our missteps in life. These lapses contribute to elevating self-awareness, gaining information about ourselves, and assist in formulating a different approach when again faced with the same or similar challenge. - Melissa Reagan Brunetti
When we make mistakes, we cannot turn the clock back and try again. All we can do is use the present well. - Dalai Lama 14th
Enlightenment is an accident, and meditation makes you accident-prone. - Zen Proverb
A Zen master is nothing more than someone who has repeatedly screwed up and eventually learned something. We can do the same. - Mark Van Buren
We are a self that is timeless and spaceless and immmaterial. We are also a self that is embodied, material, and very much in time and in space. Both of these selves are real. And both of these selves must discover the way to exist in harmony. - Richard Stathem
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Victor M. Parachin ...is aVedic educator, yoga instructor, Buddhist meditation teacher and author of a dozen books. Buy his books at amazon or your local bookstore. Archives
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