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Your true home is in the here and the now.
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Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
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Many of us continue to run even in our sleep. We can never rest. In our dreams, in our nightmares, we continue to run.
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Views, knowledge, and even wisdom are solid, and can block the way of understanding.
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Each morning when we wake up to life we see that we have a gift of twenty-four brand new hours. If
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Our inner space and our peace of mind are affected by our outer space.
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Angry words backfire upon the speaker.
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A lotus for you. A Buddha to be.
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When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.
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If a lotus is to grow, it needs to be rooted in the mind.
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People ask me, "Why do you do walking meditation?" The best answer I can give is, "Because I like it.
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The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.
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Peace is based on respect for life, the spirit of reverence for life.
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There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
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We have created a culture of constant snacking, drinking, and eating.
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The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.
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The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.
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It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.
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Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.
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The mind is like a monkey swinging from branch to branch through a forest, says the Sutra.
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We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
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That's why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness.
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Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible.
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New cells are born everyday and old cells die, but they have neither funerals nor birthdays.
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The truth is that everything contains everything else. We cannot just be, we can only inter-be.
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Peace is every step.
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Life is real; it's not a dream when mindfulness is there.
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Happiness does not come from consumption of things.
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Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere.
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In true love, there is no pride.
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Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice.
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I am life without boundaries. The decaying of this body does not mean the end of me. I am not limited to this body.
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There is no need to travel a great distance to touch the Kingdom of God, because it is not located in space or time.
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Things cannot stay the same because they are influenced by everything else, everything that is not itself.
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Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.
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Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.
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We can walk in such a way that we arrive with each step - not walking just to get somewhere else.
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Poison cannot penetrate the hand that is free of wounds.
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When we succeed in surviving strong emotions, we experience a more solid peace of mind.
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EMBRACING SUFFERING If we let the suffering come up and just take over our mind, we can be quickly overwhelmed by it.
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We have many kinds of energies in us, including the energies of anger, violence, and craving. But compassion is also a very strong energy.
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While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself.
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Looking deeply" means observing something or someone with so much concentration that the distinction between observer and observed disappears.
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Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
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Touching the present moment, we realize that the present is made of the past and is creating the future.
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Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
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Look at the body as a royal chariot to which the ignorant cling, while the wise let go.
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That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there. — Thich Nhat Hanh
When Jesus said, "I am the way," He meant that to have a true relationship with God, you must practice His way.
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I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.
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Learn to love, enjoy and embrace what you have in the here and now. That's all you really need to be happy.
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If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.
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Curb your speech, restrain your mind, commit no evil deed.
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You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.
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Don't wait to start living. Live now! Your life should be real in this very moment.
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When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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Feeling the heat of anger right now, I close my eyes and look into the future. Three hundred years from now, where will you, where will I, be?
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Our practice is to water the flower in our loved one, and not bring them more garbage.
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Just as an arrow smith shapes an arrow to perfection with fire, so does the wise man shape his mind.
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Breathing in, there is only the present moment.Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment. — Thich Nhat Hanh
Understanding is like water flowing in a stream. Wisdom and knowledge are solid and can block our understanding
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Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.
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Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
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For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves.
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When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.
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Only the present moment contains life.
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Unchecked craving strangles the careless man.
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If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight.
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Happiness can be attained by letting go, including letting go of your ideas about happiness.
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Because you are alive, everything is possible.
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At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it.
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Sitting in meditation is nourishment for your spirit and nourishment for your body, as well.
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Whoever neglects doing good is inviting addiction to evil.
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The roots of a lasting relationship are mindfulness, deep listening and loving speech, and a strong community to support you.
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Pay no attention to harsh words uttered by others.
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Nothing can heal anger except compassion.
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The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.
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The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
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We are what we feel and perceive. If we are angry, we are the anger.
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If we have too many worries, fears, and doubts, we have no room for living and loving. We need to practice letting go.
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Deeds done from bad motives remain everlastingly tainted.
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Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.
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You don't have to die to enter nirvana or the Kindgom of God. You only have to dwell deeply in the present moment, right now.
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If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.
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If you truly practice mindfulness, it will never cause harm. If the practice doesn't bring about more compassion, then it's not right mindfulness.
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We have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp.
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dwell deeply in the present moment.
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This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.
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Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.
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If we study it is not to store up knowledge but to deepen our understanding. Our understanding, in turn, can only deepen as we put it into action.
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Wise men mold their own character.
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