Stop thinking, and end your problems
~Lao tzu
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KALAMA SUTTA🍂
Do not simply believe what you hear just because you heard it for a long time.
Do not follow tradition blindly merely because it has been practised in that way for many generations.
Do not be quick to listen to rumours.
Do not confirm anything just because it agrees with your scriptures.
Do not foolishly make assumptions.
Do not abruptly draw conclusions by what you see or hear.
Do not be fooled by outward appearances.
Do not hold on tightly to any view or idea just because you are comfortable with it.
Do not accept as fact anything that you yourself find to be logical.
Do not be convinced of anything out of respect and deference to your spiritual teachers.
You should go beyond opinion and belief. You can rightly reject anything which when accepted, practised and perfected leads to more aversion, more craving and more delusion. They are not beneficial and are to be avoided.
Conversely, you can rightly accept anything which when accepted and practised leads to unconditional love, contentment and wisdom. These things allow you time and space to develop a happy and peaceful mind.
This should be your criteria on what is and what is not the truth; on what should be and what should not be the spiritual practice.
THE BUDDHA☸
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Time goes by very quickly; one day we may be surprised to discover our life is nearing its end, and we don’t know what we’ve done with all the time we’ve lived. Maybe we’ve wasted entire days in anger, fear, and jealousy. We rarely offer ourselves the time and space to consider: Am I doing what I most want to be doing with my life? Do I even know what that is? The noise in our heads and all around us drowns out the “still, small voice” inside. We are so busy doing “something” that we rarely take a moment to look deeply and check in with our deepest desires.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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F.E.A.R : Has two meanings
Forget Everything And Run
OR
Face Everything And Rise
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If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
― Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies
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"From a Buddhist point of view, each aspect and moment of our lives is an illusion. According to the Buddha, it's like seeing a black spot in the sky that you are unable to make sense of, then concentrating on it intensely until finally you are able to make out a flock of birds. It is like hearing a perfect echo that sounds exactly like a real person shouting back at you. Life is nothing more than a continuous stream of sensory illusions, from the obvious ones, like fame and power, to those less easy to discern, like death, nosebleeds, and headaches. Tragically, though, most human beings believe in what they see, and so the truth Buddha exposed about the illusory nature of life can be a little hard to swallow."
#Dzongsar_Khyentse_Rinpoche
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Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably & never regret anything that makes you smile.
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“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves”
~jung
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A seed grows with no sound
but a tree falls with huge noise.
Destruction has noise but creation is quite.
This is the power of silence...
grow silently.
~Confucius
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What's recommended is that if you have a good experience, don't get too excited. And if you have a bad experience, don't mistake it for a serious deviation or a sidetrack that you have to find your way back from. If you have a bad experience, just continue practicing as you were. In other words, whatever happens, just keep looking at your mind.
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♾What is spiritual maturity? ♾
1. Spiritual Maturity is when you stop trying to change others, ...instead focus on changing yourself.
2. Spiritual Maturity is when you accept people as they are.
3. Spiritual Maturity is when you understand everyone is right in their own perspective.
4. Spiritual Maturity is when you learn to "let go".
5. Spiritual Maturity is when you are able to drop "expectations" from a relationship and give for the sake of giving.
6. Spiritual Maturity is when you understand whatever you do, you do for your own peace.
7. Spiritual Maturity is when you stop proving to the world, how intelligent you are.
8. Spiritual Maturity is when you don't seek approval from others.
9. Spiritual Maturity is when you stop comparing with others.
10. Spiritual Maturity is when you are at peace with yourself.
11. Spiritual Maturity is when you are able to differentiate between "need" and "want" and are able to let go of your wants.
& last but most meaningful !
12. You gain Spiritual Maturity when you stop attaching "happiness" to material things !!
"Wishing all a happy Spiritually matured life"
♾
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A feeling is not beautiful or ugly, it is just a feeling. It is only when we approach it through our educated and social conditioning that we say this is a good feeling and that is a bad feeling, and so destroy the feeling or distort it. But the feeling that is not given a label as the good or the bad remains intense. It is this passionate intensity that is essential in the pursuit of the understanding of that which is neither the manifested beauty nor the ugly.
What we are insisting upon is the great importance of sustained feeling, that passion which is not the mere lust of the self in gratification. It is this that creates beauty, and since it is not comparable, it has no opposite.
~J Krishnamurti
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Stop everything. Go home, and to take refuge in yourself
“There are days when you feel it’s just not your day, and that everything is going wrong. The more you try, the worse the situation becomes. Everyone has days like that. That’s when it’s time to stop everything, go home, and to take refuge in yourself.
Rearrange everything – your feelings, your perceptions, your emotions – they’re all scattered everywhere; it’s a mess inside. Recognize and embrace each emotion …Practice mindfulness and concentration, and tidy up everything within yourself. This will help you restore your calm and peace...” ❤️
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
#Laozu
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We are formed and molded by our thoughts.
Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act.
Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
~Buddha
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We understand words in terms of their opposites. Real compassion
doesn't have a opposite.
If certain things like kindness etc...
are included within compassion
and certain things like hatred etc...
are not included within compassion,
then compassion is dependent and dualistic.
That which is dependent and dualistic is
relative. Relative compassion is very good.
But, real compassion is beyond good and bad.
Real compassion is non recognition of other.
Real compassion is non recognition of self.
Real compassion is the recognition of
dependent origination of self and other.
There is no self without other.
There is no other without self.
Self exists by comparison.
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Place the mind on one point
And everything can be done.
~Buddha
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We practically always excuse things when we understand them
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Q: How can I attain Self-realisation?
A: Realisation is nothing to be gained afresh; it is already there. All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought ‘I have not realised’.
Stillness or peace is realisation. There is no moment when the Self is not. So long as there is doubt or the feeling of non-realisation, the attempt should be made to rid oneself of these thoughts. They are due to the identification of the Self with the not-Self. When the not-Self disappears, the Self alone remains. To make room, it is enough that objects be removed. Room is not brought in from elsewhere. #RamanaMaharshi
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
― Lao Tzu
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