Here’s a mantra for emotional ability: I’m not my job, I’m not my home, I’m not my status. - Hersch Wilson
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The core truth of the Dharma can be uncovered only gradually, through patient attention and persistent endurance. The Buddha taught that realization of the truth does not come suddenly, in a flash, to an undeveloped, untrained mind, like a bolt out of the blue. - David Dale Holmes
Generosity does not and cannot come into its full fruition with an attitude of grim duty. The attitude of “I should be generous" is one of forced expectation. - Nikki Mirghafori
Thinking of an enemy as someone to be hated, thinking of a friend as someone to be loved, being jealous of others' happiness and good fortune: all this is rooted in ego clinging. And wholesome actions, infiltrated by a clinging to the "I" conceived as something real and solid, turn to poison. We should try to forsake all self-centeredness. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
We’re not here to suffer or atone for misdeeds. We are in world for a great and wonderful purpose: universal liberation and enlightenment! We’re the Buddha’s emissaries. 𑁋Tashi Nyima
As humans, we are of a nature to be born, to grow old, to fall sick, and to die. In the beginning, growing older is a good thing. But as we age there inevitably comes a tipping point at which life stops giving us things and it starts to take them away.
- Sensei Alex Kakuyo Just as the lotus flower is born in muddy water, grows in muddy water, and rises out of muddy water to stand clear, without being sullied by the muddy water, so too is the Buddha born in the world, grows in the world, and transcends the world, without being sullied by the world. 𑁋Buddha
Both yoga and Buddhism are wisdom paths that require personal commitment and create a vehicle for insight and transformation in one’s own body and mind.
- Sarah Powers Anguish is everywhere. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can. - Robert Aitken
It is easy to be overwhelmed by all the problems in this world. You may already be overwhelmed by the problems in your own life. On top of that, you are continually bombarded with news about political, humanitarian, and environmental problems. There seems to be no end of problems. - Judy Lief
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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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