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All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.


Kim Stanley Robinson


#change #inspirational #change

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)


Jean-Yves Leloup


#equanimity #knowledge #meditation #mind #reality

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!


Kobayashi Issa


#haiku #persistence #struggle #buddhism

Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen.


Hermann Hesse


#east #hesse #west #change

We don’t need any sort of religious orientation to lead a life that is ethical, compassionate & kind.


Sharon Salzberg


#compassion #inspirational #change

Today's satori: Such a change of mind would Not exist without My lifelong habit of having My mind immersed in blossoms.


Saigyō


#change

A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe a word of this: try asking the children of Indochina who were dumped by their parents for inherited deformities that were attributed to sins in a previous 'life.


Christopher Hitchens


#buddhism #eastern-religion #indochina #monotheism #rebirth-buddhism

Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill.


Saigyō


#life

Children I implore you get out of the burning house now three carts wait outside to save you from a homeless life relax in the village square before the sky everything's empty no direction is better or worse east is just as good as west those who know the meaning of this are free to go where they want


Han-shan


#old-songs #transcendence #life

Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.


Robert A.F. Thurman


#psychology #science #spirituality #wisdom #science






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