#bud

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#suffering #family

In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#food

Tapi anehnya, kebanyakan orang-orang yang niru budaya Barat itu suka serba tanggung. Nirunya separo-separo. Budaya pupnya, ditiru. Budaya kumpul kebonya, ditiru. Budaya makan junk food-nya, ditiru. Budaya mabok-mabokannya, ditiru. Tapi pas giliran budaya tertibnya, ga ditiru. Budaya disiplinnya, ga ditiru. Termasuk budaya kerja kerasnya, ga ditiru. Ini payah namanya. Sok kebarat-baratan. ↗

— Jabogar

#food

There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. ... There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. ↗

— Mark Epstein

#buddhism #desire #freedom #suffering #transcendence

Each time you meet an old emotional pattern with presence, your awakening to truth can deepen. There’s less identification with the self in the story and more ability to rest in the awareness that is witnessing what’s happening. You become more able to abide in compassion, to remember and trust your true home. Rather than cycling repetitively through old conditioning, you are actually spiraling toward freedom. ↗

— Tara Brach

#emotional-healing #meditation #freedom

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ↗

— Tara Brach

#compassion #self-compassion #spiritual #freedom

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #budgets #cover #ever #goal

Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful. ↗

— Charles Vest

#balanced budget #been #being #budget #close

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. In our scriptures (Samyuktagama Sutra, volume 33), it is said that there are four kinds of horses: excellent ones, good ones, poor ones, and bad ones. The best horse will run slow and fast, right and left, at the driver's will, before it sees the shadow of the whip; the second best will run as well as the first one does, just before the whip reaches its skin; the third one will run when it feels pain on its body; the fourth will run after the pain penetrates to the marrow of its bones. You can imagine how difficult it is for the fourth one to learn how to run! ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#imagination

Imagine a great net spread across the universe. Each juncture is a “being,” and if we imagine that consciousness as a drop of dew, we can see that in each shining drop resides the reflection of every other drop on the net. ↗

— Sandy Boucher

#women #imagination