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21 " If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. "
― Joseph Goldstein , Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
22 " It’s always helpful to have a sense of humor about one’s own mental foibles. By "
23 " Because these moods and mind states are so amorphous and generalized, we often sink into them and become identified with them, and they become the unconscious filter on experience. At these times, we’re looking at the world through colored glasses. "
24 " Receiving joy is another way to say enjoyment, and samādhi is the act of refined enjoyment. It is based in skillfulness. It is the careful collecting of oneself into the joy of the present moment. Joyfulness means there’s no fear, no tension, no “ought to.” There isn’t anything we have to do about it. It’s just this.1 "
25 " let the breath draw the mind down to its own level of subtlety. It is like listening to someone playing a flute as they walk off into the distance. "
26 " As a solid mass of rock Is not moved by the wind, So a sage is not moved by praise and blame. "
27 " The mind does not belong to you, but you are responsible for it. "
28 " When we have too much faith, we can become dogmatic, attached to our own views. And we can see all too often how this blind belief leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world. "
29 " It is the truth that liberates, not your efforts to be free. "
30 " All beings are the heirs of their own karma. Their happiness or unhappiness depends on their actions, not upon my wishes. "
31 " On a boat in the middle of a great storm, one wise, calm person can bring everyone to safety. The "
32 " Whatever is born will die; Whatever is joined will come apart; Whatever is gathered will disperse; Whatever is high will fall. Having considered this, I resolve not to be attached To these lush meadows, Even now, in the full glory of my display, Even as my petals unfold in splendor . . . You too, while strong and fit, Should abandon your clinging. . . . Seek the pure field of freedom, The great serenity.3 "
33 " No deed is good that one regrets having done. "
34 " The great discovery in our practice is that, on one level, birth and death, existence and nonexistence, self and other are the great defining themes of our lives. And on another level, it’s all just a dance of insubstantial appearances, what the Buddha called “the magic show of consciousness. "
35 " the value of an action is measured not by its success or failure, but by the motivation behind it. "
36 " To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad thing come forth and experience themselves is awakening. "
37 " the only things that can be said to truly belong to us are our actions and their results; "
38 " Awareness of motivation plays a central role in the path of liberation. "
39 " the results of our actions follow us like a shadow, or, to use an ancient image, like the wheel of the oxcart following the foot of the ox. "
40 " Mind is the forerunner of all things. Speak or act with peaceful mind, happiness follows like a shadow that never leaves.4 "