April 2010
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“Nature is much more concerned with play than with reaching goals.”
– Alan Watts (via delicatesoul)
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“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk...”
– Buddha (via prettylittlemonster)
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Four Noble Truths.
nicolehyrule:
The Nature of Suffering: This is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to...
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“Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon,...”
– The Buddha (via gardenofthefareast)
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– Buddha (via ayyonikkib)
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“The point… is not to become somebody but rather the point is to become free. And...”
– From Gil Fronsdal’s “Introduction to Meditation” talk.
Gil is a supremely pleasant and humble talker and teacher on Buddhism. To be found both on Zencast.org and AudioDharma.org
(via brainonfire)
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Zencast 258 -Letting Go and Picking Up →
Letting Go and Picking Up - Gil Fronsdal This teaching is given freely courtesy of Audio Dharma. Audio Dharma ; IMC ; Gil Fronsdal
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“You are what you deeply desire. As is your desire, so is your resolve. As is...”
– The Upanisads, an ancient yoga treatise (via theleadershipyoga)
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf (via abbraccispezzati) (via clairefisher)
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“Nothing fails like success.”
– Alan Watts
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“The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind...”
– Confucius
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“The morning sun shines in the lonely window.
I sit up straight, and my mind...”
– Chunbong Manwoo (1357-?) (via crazyangelblue)
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“Seeker: “Teach me the way to liberation.”
Zen master: “Who binds you?”
Seeker:...”
– Steve Hagen, Buddhism (via baristv)
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“Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion...”
– Albert Einstein (via ageofreason)
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“The centipede was happy, quite,
Until a toad in fun
Said, ‘Pray, which leg...”
– From Alan Watts’ “The Way of Zen”. Describing “the power of man’s spontaneous and natural functioning-a power which is blocked when one tries to master it in terms of formal methods and techniques” (Watts, 27). (via weeney)
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“Sentient beings are like a man with a magic gem hidden in his garment which he...”
– Buddha, The Surangama Sutra
(via ~fOrest Owl~)
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“Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood...”
– Zen saying. (via lardhat)
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“All beings are Buddhas,
But this is concealed by adventitious stains.
When...”
– Hevajra Tantra (via forestowl)
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“Nothing needs to happen.”
– Gil Fronsdal
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“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.”
– Buddha (via brand0ns0fr3sh)
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Zencast 257 - Healing →
Healing - Jack Kornfield This teaching is given freely courtesy of Dharma Seed. Dharma Seed; Spirit Rock ; Jack Kornfield
