April 2012
32 posts
March 2012
14 posts
“It is not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
—Steven R. Covey
“And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open.”
—anonymous
“… this “I” is a fictitious entity that is always ready to whither away the moment we stop sustaining it. We don’t have to go to a holy place to experience this. All we have to do is simply sit and pay attention to our breath, allowing ourselves to let go of all of our fantasies and mental images. Then we can experience connecting to our inner world.”
—No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
All is One. One is All.
“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”
—Cree Indian Proverb
“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly… this is the interrelated structure of reality.”
—Martin Luther King Jr.
“A true spiritual path transcends all concepts and belief systems. It is not about reinforcing the mind’s illusion of self as an identity. It is not about being a Buddhist, a saint, or a better person. It is really about deconstructing all of our illusions without any mercy.”
—No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
“when there is nothing left to burn you have to set yourself on fire”
—Torquil Campbell
“The ultimate truth, or emptiness, is the destruction of all illusions and that includes the illusion of enlightenment.”
—No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
“Sky is free.
Ocean is blissful.
Trees are divine.
Rocks are enlightened.
So are we.
Who is still searching…
for what?” —No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
Ocean is blissful.
Trees are divine.
Rocks are enlightened.
So are we.
Who is still searching…
for what?” —No Self, No Problem by Anam Thubten
Notice what qualities in others and in yourself that you find difficult to accept. You are what you reject, so accept.
