The path is easy and simple. What is difficult and complicated is to continue suffering.
The path is easy and simple. What is difficult and complicated is to continue suffering. Buddha Nature is not a …
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.
They are your teachers. “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; …
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” Rumi
Science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality.
“If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism …
When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left?
“When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your …
The Sage is beyond the mind, beyond the mental concepts.
A Sage has absolutely no teaching to give you. If you want to have a teaching, you’ll have to go …
The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others.
“The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much …
After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and gain of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Do not believe what you have heard; Do not believe in traditions just because they have been handed down for …
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it.
Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we are frantic, life will be …
Things that exist are imperfect.
“Many Zen masters missed this point, while they were striving to attain perfect zazen: things that exist are imperfect.” Shunryu …