if you understand the background of existence, you realize that suffering itself is how we live, and how we extend our life
Polina Semyonovahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.
Polina Semyonovahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
We do not exist for the sake of something else.
Polina Semyonovahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
In the beginner’s mind there is no thought, “I have attained something.” All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. Then we can really learn something.
Teotlinhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless
Teotlinhat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
For a while you will keep your beginner’s mind, but if you continue to practice one, two, three years or more, although you may improve some, you are liable to lose the limitless meaning of original mind
Polina Semyonovahat Zitat gemachtvor 4 Jahren
in the end it is not the extraordinariness of the teacher which perplexes, intrigues, and deepens the student, it is the teacher’s utter ordinariness.
olegkutcynahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
You become discouraged with your practice when your practice has been idealistic.
Widyahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
When you say something to someone, he may not accept it, but do not try to make him understand it intellectually. Do not argue with him; just listen to his objections until he himself finds something wrong with them
Widyahat Zitat gemachtvor 6 Jahren
Each bow expresses one of the four Buddhist vows. These vows are: “Although sentient beings are innumerable, we vow to save them. Although our evil desires are limitless, we vow to be rid of them. Although the teaching is limitless, we vow to learn it all. Although Buddhism is unattainable, we vow to attain it.”