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cultivate freedom, including freedom from your own concepts and ideas.
I am becoming calm, I am letting go. Having let go, victory is mine. I smile. I am free.
without freedom, there is no happiness.
You have to realize that happiness is not something you find at the end of the road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness
Buddhism teaches that the body and mind are two aspects of the same thing.
There is a Sanskrit expression, namarupa. Nama is our mental aspect, and rupa means form.
“Psychosomatic” is the Western term; namarupa is the equivalent in Sanskrit.
look deeply into the nature of reality, we will see that nothing is created or lost.
Birth is only a moment of continuation.
“what was your face before the birth of your grandmother?”
“Nothing is created and nothing is lost,”
Concepts like birth and death, being and nonbeing, are not applicable to reality.
Nirvana, the ultimate reality, cannot be described, because it is free of all concepts and ideas.
Nirvana is the extinction of all concepts.
It is total f...
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is death? It is simply the cessation of manifestation, followed by other forms of manifestation.
That which is currently not perceivable is not nonexistent.
Existence and nonexistence are just concepts.
There is only manifestation and non-manifestation, which depen...
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When you speak with 100 percent of your being, your speech becomes mantra. In Buddhism, a mantra is a sacred formula that has the power to transform reality.
“Dear one, I am here for you.
“Dear one, I know that you are here, alive, and that makes me very happy.
In order to love, we must be here,
“Dear one, I know that you are suffering. That’s why I am here for you.
“Dear one, I am suffering. I need your help.”
I am suffering. I need your help. I need you to explain to me why you did this thing to me.
You love someone, you need them, and so in these difficult moments, you should go and ask them for help. In true love, there is no place for pride.
you have the support of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha in uttering these words.
“Are you sure of your perceptions?
the three Dharma Seals.
every authentic Dharma teaching bears the mark of impermanence.
Impermanence is the very heart of life.
Reject impermanence, and you reject life.
Non-self (anatman) is the second mark of an authentic Buddhist teaching.
You already are everything you are seeking. Do not try to become something else.
We suffer because we want to deny ourselves. We want to become something else, and so we never stop running.
Aimlessness is a form of concentration, one of three practices of deep looking recommended by the Buddha.
The other two are concentration on the absence of distinguishing signs (alakshana) and concentration on emptiness (sunyata). So emptiness, signlessness, and aimlessness—sunyata, alakshana, and apranihita—are known as the three concentrations, the three meditations.
We must bring about a revolution in our thinking: we must stop.
You have God within you, so you do not have to look for God.
Birth and death are only ideas, and reality is free from all concepts. Ideas have caused you to suffer, so be suspicious of your ideas.
You are already what you are seeking to become.
Stopping is peace.
stopping and looking deeply, samatha ...
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nirvana, which means extinction.
We manifest and then we return to the elements that compose us, only to manifest once again.
“To be or not to be—that is not the question.”
nirvana is the complete extinction of concepts, including the concepts of impermanence and non-self.
This present moment must become the most wonderful moment in your life.
Death is as important as being born,
