Philosophy 03 (May 24 - Dec 25)

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The Need to Love

The need to love and to be loved, is real and present in every one of us.

- Dang Nghiem, “How to Be Your Own Soulmate”

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Literature as Spirituality

Literature models a truth of spiritual life: that there are moments we come to when our thinking is suspended and when an old knowing has been dropped and the attachment to a new knowing, has not yet arisen.

- Henry Shukman, “The Art of Being Wrong”

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The Seeds of Experience

You could think of the mind as a field: Whatever you do and think — all of the actions that will lead to happiness or suffering — are like seeds or imprints that you plant in it.

When conditions are ripe, a seed will sprout into an experience.

- Trinlay Tulku, “The Seeds of Life”

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No Self, No Other

There are different ways to explain anatta (no-self), yet fundamentally it denies our separation from other people and from the rest of the natural world.

- David Loy, “Healing Ecology”

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Aspects of Enlightenment

If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment.

- Eihei Dogen Zenji, “Tea and Rice”

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

- Aristotle

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When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

– Abraham Lincoln

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The Value of Questioning

Children are taught to question and challenge in ways that are good.

Value comes from challenging and investigating.

Kyabgön Phakchok, “Keys to Happiness”

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The Wisdom of Silence

There’s something about silence — it’s like being in the eye of a hurricane.

When we can be still, when we’re not trying to figure it out, there’s a knowing and an intuition that we can connect with.

- George Mumford, “Starting from Silence”

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What Lies Within

There is within you that which is beyond birth and death, beyond success and failure.

It just knows that you are and it is.

- David Radin, “Left Foot, Right Foot”