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If you were dying, who would you want to speak to before you drew your last breath? – Margaret Meloni
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At first a teacher is necessary. Then when you grow up, a teacher is not necessary. Kick the teacher out. - Seung Sahn
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For anything to change at all, mindfulness is needed. It is central to the process of awakening, central to the process of transformation. - Christina Feldman
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The ultimate goal of Buddhism isn’t to be reborn in a better place, or to become wealthy in the next life, or to receive blessings in this life. It’s about how to live freely and happily without suffering and stress. This is the original teaching of Buddhism. - Pomnyun Sunim
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
- Sensei Alex Kakuyo