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The Roots of Buddhist Psychology by Jack Kornfield
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To meditate is to discover the heart’s capacity for truth, in the midst of sorrows and in the midst of beauty.
“We are traveling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the Earth. My heart’s a little fast. Otherwise everything’s fine.” - Brecht
“The mystic, the spirit, flies moment to moment.
The fearful clutches along month to month.” - Rumi
“It’s the heart that lets go, the fingers just follow” - African proverb
Buddhist psychology 101: if you want to be free you have to look at what minds do.
“The way of the practice of the Buddha is to meet one thing: this moment. And being in this moment, one practices completely.” - DOGEN
“The end of life is to do the will of God, to act with truth come what may.” - MLK
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The movement of the heart comes when we remember the treasure of life around us.
“The saints are what they are not because of their sanctity but because of the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.” - Thomas Merton
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness, once you make this all important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” - Andre Gide
The singing of each thing, it is this that makes spiritual joy.
To discover equanimity is to discover a radical acceptance of life and of not knowing.
“We are traveling with tremendous speed toward a star in the Milky Way. A great repose is visible on the face of the Earth. My heart’s a little fast. Otherwise everything’s fine.” - Brecht
“The mystic, the spirit, flies moment to moment.
The fearful clutches along month to month.” - Rumi
“It’s the heart that lets go, the fingers just follow” - African proverb
Buddhist psychology 101: if you want to be free you have to look at what minds do.
“The way of the practice of the Buddha is to meet one thing: this moment. And being in this moment, one practices completely.” - DOGEN
“The end of life is to do the will of God, to act with truth come what may.” - MLK
“If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The movement of the heart comes when we remember the treasure of life around us.
“The saints are what they are not because of their sanctity but because of the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everybody else.” - Thomas Merton
“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness, once you make this all important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.” - Andre Gide
The singing of each thing, it is this that makes spiritual joy.
To discover equanimity is to discover a radical acceptance of life and of not knowing.