Philosophy 04 (Jan 25 - Dec 26)

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An Awakened Moment

At each moment, the toxins we encounter may be either compounded or abandoned.

A moment without greed, hatred or delusion, is an awakened moment.

- Andrew Olendzki, “A Tough but Not Impossible Act to Follow”

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To See the World Anew

The world is dynamic and changing; therein lies its freshness.

But our ideas about it tend to grow static and calcified.

Even our ideas about the most important things: who we are, how things are, why the world is the way it is.

- Henry Shukman, “The Unfamiliar Familiar”

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Beyond Dualism

Our own sense of reason or logic, is not to be trusted.

The simple reason for this is that absolute reality, our ultimate nature, is beyond the dualism of the thinking mind.

- Pema Düddul, “Wisdom Beyond Reason”

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Winter Always Turns to Spring

The winters of your life are very important and how you live your winters, or how you develop yourself and hone your inherent potential during those winters, is how beautifully the cherry blossoms of your life will blossom.

- Nakuul Mehta, “Human Revolution”

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Pay Closer Attention

The antidote for the poison of boredom, is simply to pay closer attention.

There is always something happening, no matter how subtle.

One of the truths of life and phenomena, is that everything is always changing.

- Kimberly Brown, “The Antidote to Boredom”

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Awakening Is the Fruit of Action

Awakening is based not on what you agree to as right but on what you do and what you experience, as a result of what you do.

- Thanissaro Bhikkhu, “Things as They Can Be”

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Strengthening the Heart

The most certain result of loving-kindness and compassion practices, is the strengthening of the heart of the person doing the practice.

- Beth Roth, “A Bedtime Ritual”

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You Have to Get Wet

Answering ‘What is Zen?’ is like answering ‘What is the ocean?’.

To understand the ocean, you have to submerge yourself. You have to get wet.

- Les Kaye, “You Have to Get Wet”

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Spread Compassion

There doesn’t seem to be any hope unless compassion becomes a more widespread, important teaching, on how to live.

Compassion to self and others.

- Allen Ginsberg, “Spontaneous Intelligence”

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The Gift

The greatest gift you can give to others, is to become less of a problem through understanding yourself.

- Larry Rosenberg, “The Art of Doing Nothing”