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Buddhism Plain and Simple QUOTES

Buddhism Plain and Simple QUOTES

1 " We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

2 " The buddha-dharma … is about directly seeing Truth, prior to forming any ideas about it. It is about responding to each particular situation as it comes … , not according to some … program of dos and don'ts. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

3 " [T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

4 " The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

5 " [I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

6 " [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

7 " [A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

8 " [W]e have endless opportunities to forget the self – in planting a tree for future generations; in creating a poem, a meal, a vessel of clay; "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

9 " There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

10 " [H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place? "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

11 " The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

12 " How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate? "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

13 " Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.] "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

14 " [A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

15 " We can only be here. We can't leave. We are always here. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

16 " If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

17 " Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

18 " Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

19 " Good times come and go. And bad times do the same. "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple

20 " [E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.] "

― Steve Hagen , Buddhism Plain and Simple