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Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength read more
Power comes not from the barrel of a gun, but from one's awareness of his or her own cultural strength and the unlimited capacity to empathize with, feel for, care, and love one's brothers and sisters.
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost read more
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... read more
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Each night the Tree of Nut
out of naught knits neat nuts.
Each night the Tree of Nut
out of naught knits neat nuts.
The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too read more
The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality read more
Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could read more
Life is a waste of time; time is a waste of life; so why waste your time when you could be having the time of your life?
