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GUIDE: Counting from 1 to 10 is not going to make me enlightened, but not counting from 1 to 10 is not going to make me enlightened either.
Cheri Huber • There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
Shunryu Suzuki
Jack Kornfield • The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West
for the aspiring bodhisattva, suffering is the trusted gateway to awakening the heart.
Tara Brach • Radical Acceptance
The first is a quality of peace.
Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
BE SUSPICIOUS of any voice, inside or outside, that says there is something wrong with you. This voice does not like you and is not helpful. It is possible that with the awareness that you have been unkind toward someone, you might realize, in a gentle sort of way, “I don’t want to do that. It doesn’t feel very good.” And it’s not that you’re a bad
... See moreCheri Huber • There Is Nothing Wrong with You: Going Beyond Self-Hate
The elderly tenzo said, “Other people are not me.” Let’s look at this statement. What he is saying is, my life is absolute. No one can live it for me. No one can feel it for me. No one can serve it for me. My work, my suffering, my joy, are absolute. There’s no way, for instance, you can feel the pain in my toe; or I can feel the pain in your toe.
... See moreCharlotte J. Beck • Everyday Zen: Love and Work (Plus)
learn once that you don’t have to react that way, you’re free of it. You prove to yourself that you won’t die and you won’t go crazy and parts of your body won’t fall off. You can just be there and be perfectly fine. Then something hurts and you can sit through that. It just becomes interesting. You’re not resisting it any more. It’s just kind of
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