From the Dalai Lama: “When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’”
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Quote of the day 07/15/24
From the Dalai Lama: “This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.”
Quote of the day 07/14/24
From the Dalai Lama: “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”
Quote of the day 07/13/24
From the Dalai Lama: “I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.”
Quote of the day 07/12/24
From Nagarjuna: “Entities do not exist In their causes, in their conditions, in aggregations of many things, or in individual things. Therefore, all entities are empty.”
Quote of the day 07/11/24
From Nagarjuna: “With all its many risks, this life enduresNo more than windblown bubbles in a stream.How marvelous to breathe in and out again,To fall asleep and then awake refreshed.”
Quote of the day 07/10/24
From Nagarjuna: “The whole world is cause and effect; excluding this, there is no sentient being. From factors which are empty, empty factors originate. Those who impute origination to even very subtle entities are unwise and have not seen the meaning of conditioned origination. There is nothing to be denied and nothing to be affirmed.Continue reading “Quote of the day 07/10/24”
Quote of the day 07/09/24
From Nagarjuna: “Since all is empty, all is possible.”
Quote of the day 07/08/24
From Nagarjuna: “All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”
Quote of the day 06/12/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “We have to learn the art of stopping — stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us.”
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