The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg.
“The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made of, not the circumstances.” …
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I want you to become full of gratitude.
“I don’t want you to become benevolent. I want you to become full of gratitude. Benevolent people, after some time, …
If you neglect to protect your mind
If you neglect to protect your mind, you can neither close the door to suffering nor open the door to …
Where you find out what the character of a man is.
“I admire men of character and I judge character not by how men deal with their superiors, but mostly how …
Ask a cloud: ‘What is your date of birth? Before you were born, where were you?’
Ask a cloud: ‘What is your date of birth? Before you were born, where were you?’ – Thich Nhat Hanh …
Abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment.
Now when the bardo of dying dawns upon me, I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and attachment, Enter undistracted into …
Not for rights, not for freedom, not for justice, not for healing, not for getting better in a worldly way.
If you’re practising Dharma, you practise it for enlightenment. Not for rights, not for freedom, not for justice, not for …
Every time you act, it’s important that you look at your motivation before you act.
“When the Buddha was teaching Rahula at the beginning of the path, he didn’t say, well nothing really amounts to …
The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it.
In meditation we can see through the illusion of past, present and future – our experience becomes the continuity of …
The Mind of Equilibrium
Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the …