#buddhism

As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good not bad. Keep meditating.' ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#detachment #experience

Support the type of thinking that leads you to feeling good, peaceful & happy. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #inspirational

If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#inspirational #religious #self-help #inspirational

The essence of the Dharma (the teachings of the Buddha) is about identifying the cause of our suffering & alleviating it. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #inspirational #inspirational

What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something. ↗

— Kentetsu Takamori

#buddhism #japan #religion #spirituality #life

Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent. ↗

— Sogyal Rinpoche

#intelligence

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#buddhism #life-truths #truth #truth-of-life #life

People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#humanism #life

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound to me, amazing, the ramifications, the implications, the far-reaching impact that one’s beliefs could have on the world. It was actually mind-blowing for me. Figuratively speaking. Like, it was just, holy shit. Look at that. And nobody, hardly anybody sees it. They’re just ideas. Ideas. And yet, I’d believed them for so long, and still, was still shirking free of them. How was it that we believed in them, so readily, so easily? ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-truths #spirituality #truth

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #love