Don’t use Buddhism to become a Buddhist.
Don’t use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are …
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Remember you don’t meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things.
Remember you don’t meditate to “get” anything, but to get “rid” of things. We do it not with desire but …
Look at what you have not to gain, look at what is already there.
All gains are only temporary gains because everything comes and goes. So look at what you have not to gain, …
It is incorrect to reason that our mothers of former lives are no longer our mothers just because a long time has passed since they actually cared for us.
It is incorrect to reason that our mothers of former lives are no longer our mothers just because a long …
You are Yourself all in all, What can I offer You?
You are the heaven and You are the earth, You are the day and You are the night, You are …
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward.
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backward. So when life is dragging you back with difficulties, it …
The Buddha’s sacred last words
The Buddha’s sacred last words: vayadhammā saṅkhārā appamādena sampādetha All compounded things, all experiences (mental and physical), all phenomena by …
Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves.
Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions …
Train yourself to look on this self-important, dream-like world of gain and loss, fame and obscurity, pleasure and pain, praise and blame, with understanding and compassion.
Train yourself to look on this self-important, dream-like world of gain and loss, fame and obscurity, pleasure and pain, praise …