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The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present
Life is a straight drink - straight pleasure, straight pain, straightforward, one hundred percent.
Ego is constantly attempting to acquire and apply the teachings of spirituality for its own benefit.
Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.
Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.
The courage to work with ourselves comes as basic trust in ourselves, as a sort of fundamental optimism.
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.
The strongest of us are those that are spiritually strong, and a spiritual warrior is one of vulnerability.
We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.
When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
Our bodies demand our attention; our bodies demand that we actually pay attention to what is going on with our lives.
Watchfulness is experiencing a sudden glimpse of something without any qualifications - just the sudden glimpse itself.
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle
Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.
The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well.
For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.
Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.
The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.
Anything that is created must sooner or later die. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it.
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of extreme impulse, but the area in-between is very fuzzy.
If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
We can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spirituality when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques.
When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up
As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with this or that point of view.
For the warrior, every moment is a challenge to be genuine, and each challenge is delightful. When you let go properly, you can relax and enjoy the challenge.
Because there is something difficult and destructive involved, there must be something creative involved as well. Relating to that creative aspect is the point.
To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.
The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness.
The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.
Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.
Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.