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Instead of clinging to habitual behavior and routines as a means to secure this sense of self, we realize the freedom to create who we are.
Stephen Batchelor • Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Second, because the majority of those who cultivate in the dharma-ending age are attached to material appearances and given to such external practices as offering incense, flowers, and prostrations, they don’t realize their own true nature.
Red Pine • The Diamond Sutra: The Perfection of Wisdom
Far Eastern Buddhism is much more palatable and “according to nature” than its Indian and Tibetan counterparts, with ideals of life which seem at times to be superhuman, more suited to angels than to men. Even so, all forms of Buddhism subscribe to the Middle Way between the extremes of angel (deva) and demon (preta), ascetic and sensualist, and cl
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
free from defilement or belief in a self
Red Pine • The Lankavatara Sutra: Translation and Commentary (NONE)
In the emptiness of all things—the magical insubstantial way in which all things arise and vanish, lacking any abiding or fixed self—is hidden the gift of nonseparateness.
Jack Kornfield • A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life
emptiness and dependent origination
Rob Burbea • Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising
impermanence, freedom, and deep kindness in our bones.
Michael Stone • The Inner Tradition of Yoga: A Guide to Yoga Philosophy for the Contemporary Practitioner
We get a tantalizing taste of what Buddhists call the enlightened life.