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When I missed the physical body of my partner, I meditated on its parts, tossed by the waves, torn, dispersed, and deteriorated. When memories of our lives together became acute and intense, I breathed. I breathed through each wave of yearning, of regret, of guilt, of what-could-have-been. Every time I asked him, “Where are you?” A quiet voice immediately responded, “I am here. I have never left you.” I did not only lose a partner. I lost my childhood all over again. I lost my soul mate. I lost the accepting father and the gentle mother that he was to me. I lost the dream of a “normal life,” which I had tried so hard to achieve. Now I had to face my own mind.


Dang Nghiem


#loss #love #dreams

People who are diagnosed as having "generalized anxiety disorder" are afflicted by three major problems that many of us experience to a lesser extent from time to time. First and foremost, says Rapgay, the natural human inclination to focus on threats and bad news is strongly amplified in them, so that even significant positive events get suppressed. An inflexible mentality and tendency toward excessive verbalizing make therapeutic intervention a further challenge.


Winifred Gallagher


#attention #buddhism #focus #meditation #therapy

Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano.


Kentetsu Takamori


#buddhism #faith #japan #life #religion

The five points of yama, together with the five points of niyama, remind us of the Ten Commandments of the Christtian and Jewish faiths, as well as of the ten virtues of Buddhism. In fact, there is no religion without these moral or ethical codes. All spiritual life should be based on these things. They are the foundation stones without which we can never build anything lasting. (127)


Swami Satchidananda


#christianity #dharma #ethics #judaism #niyama

If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquires. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.


Ayya Khema


#buddhism #faith #inquiry #inspirational #introspection

Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.


T. Scott McLeod


#enlightenment #life-s-greatest-answers #life-s-purpose #living-the-question #meditation

You don't understand. I only prostitute the part of the body that isn't important, and nobody suffers except my karma a little bit. I don't do big harm. You prostitute your mind. Mind is seat of Buddha. What you do is very very bad. You should not use your mind in that way


John Burdett


#prostitution #the-mind #karma

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end.


Anonymous


#dhammapada #theravada #buddhism

[S]he believed that the Buddhists were right–that if you want, you will suffer; if you love, you will grieve. (68)


Anne Lamott


#buddhism #desire #grief #love #suffering

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.


Bodhidharma


#enlightenment #mind #zen #enlightenment






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