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watching, I am breathing, I am meditating, I am this, that is mine."
-Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, "Mindfulness With Breathing"
• Thought is an event like the weather but the sky is unaffected. The weather can obscure the sky but the sky is no less as a result. – Todd Vickers
• When all the myriad streams that flow in different places, each with its own colour and taste, enter the great ocean, they blend and become just one taste, with one name. In the same way, stupidity and wisdom both become one in the awakened mind. When one first starts along the path, there seems to be a distinction that this is stupidity and that is wisdom. But later, when one penetrates more deeply, one finds there is no difference between stupidity and wisdom. -Visuddhi Magga
• Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you do not talk back.
• [BUDDHISM] Actually, emptiness of mind is not even a state of mind, but the original essence of mind which Buddha and the Sixth Patriarch experienced. "Essence of mind," "original mind," "original face," "Buddha nature," "emptiness"--all these words mean the absolute calmness of our mind.
-Shunryu Suzuki, "Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind"
• [BUDDHISM]There is an extremely easy way to become Buddha. Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you,
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