#buddhism

The point is to be free, not to be crazy. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#psychology #buddhism

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#humanism #buddhism

In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would be a product dependent upon cause and effect and therefore liable to dissolution. Anything which is created must, sooner or later, die. If enlightenment were created in such a way, there would always be a possibility of ego reasserting itself, causing a return to the confused state. Enlightenment is permanent because we have not produced it; we have merely discovered it. ↗

— Chögyam Trungpa

#confusion #discovery #enlightenment #philosophy #self-discovery

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight. ↗

— Saigyō

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Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss. ↗

— Saigyō

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Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one. ↗

— Wei Wu Wei

#happiness #buddhism

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like. ↗

— Daniel J. Siegel

#mindfulness #psychology #buddhism

People get stuck a lot because they're afraid to act; in the worst case,...we get so attached to some end result that we can't function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn't wait. ↗

— Bernie Glassman

#change #life-changing #life-lessons #motivation #philosophy

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#meditation #mindfulness #psychology #art

Love has no meaning without understanding ↗

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#inspiration #love #art