This life passes as quickly as autumn clouds
“This life passes as quickly as autumn clouds; Family and friends are like passers-by in a market; The demon of …
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart.
The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. Pema Chodron
You don’t have to say anything. You don’t have to teach anything.
“You don’t have to say anything. You don’t have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: …
We should try to rid ourselves of this perception of the faults of other, and cultivate the attitude whereby the whole of existence, all appearances, are experienced as pure.
“When we see defects in others, people in general but particularly those who have entered the Dharma, who are the …
A practitioner, when such thoughts arise, experiences freedom: initially, by recognizing the thought for what it is, then it is freed in and of itself, and finally, thought is freed in being unable to be of benefit or harm.
“The practitioner of self-liberation is like an ordinary person as far as the way in which the thoughts of pleasure …
Natural confluence of all the ways
“I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I’m a director, and it …
We are a continuum.
“We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians …
Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions.
“Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions.” ~ Ajahn Brahm
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless …
Whatever passes through the mind, we should just watch it come and go, lightly and without attachment
“Not to try to hold on to each thoughts as it arises. Whatever passes through the mind, we should just …