Sublime

From a Buddhist tradition, the three marks can be summarized in the catchy phrase: “Shit happens. Everything changes. Don’t take it personally.”

When we are trapped in the trance of feeling separate and unworthy, Buddha nature appears to be outside of us.

Therefore the Buddha devised the doctrine that is called the Middle Way, that is neither ascetic nor hedonistic.

Telles sont les trois réalités élémentaires de l’univers, enseignait le Bouddha : tout change constamment, rien n’a d’essence durable et rien n’est complètement satisfaisant.

Mahayana does not mean leaving the world and abandoning social connections and responsibilities. Rather, it involves a more inner renunciation in which we give up our designs and preconceptions regarding others and aspire to work with them as and where they are

The way of a bodhisattva is a way of internal clarity, a clarity that expresses itself in compassion and enables us to bring all our skills and capabilities to the challenges life presents. When we have the capacity to experience whatever life brings to us, we are not thrown into turmoil by our own reactions. If we can experience the joys, tribulat

Shantideva, the author of The Way of the Bodhisattva,