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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #bud




The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.


Mark Epstein


#desire #dualistic-thinking #grace #meditation #objectification

Mindfulness is life. Whenever we don’t have mindfulness, when we are heedless, it’s as if we are dead.


Ajahn Chah


#life

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

The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to the mystery of life, all life.


Ron Starbuck


#buddhiam #christ #christianity #life

Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics.


Fulton J. Sheen


#buddhism #ethics #morals #life

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.


Pema Chödrön


#healing #new-beginnings #spirituality #unknown #life

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.


Gautama Buddha


#buddhism #wisdom #love

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