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You are happy as a calligrapher only when you have the capacity to do calligraphy.
Happiness is also like that. You have to cultivate happiness; you cannot buy it at the store.
Walking meditation is a wonderful way to train your...
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every step will provide you with the kind of peace and happiness that nourishes, heals, and satisfies.
If you are trained in walking meditation, with each step you can experience peace, happiness, and fulfillment.
Pure Land of the Buddha is in your heart. If you are free, you can touch the wonders of life here and now.
God is available twenty-four hours a day. If God is there, his kingdom is there.
you do walking meditation properly, every step helps you touch the Pure Land of the Buddha. So you can challenge yourself: “I will do walking meditation from here t...
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Not many people are as successful as she is, and she knows that she is fortunate. And yet she isn’t happy.
We have a tendency to think of happiness as something we will obtain in the future.
you will quickly adapt to that new condition, and in just a few weeks you won’t feel happy anymore.
After you marry, you may have a period of happiness, but eventually happiness vanishes.
What you get is not what you expected and dreamed of.
The person you are living with may betra...
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You can’t be sure that person will be faithful to you, so there is also...
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Even if you have a good job, you are not sure you can keep it: you may be...
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To hold on to these conditions of so-called happiness, you have to be busy all day long. And with these worries, uncertainties, and busyness, you d...
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We should not rely on any object to give rise to the mind of enlightenment, the mind of love.
“If I am not happy in this career, what will I do?”
when you know how to cultivate understanding and compassion in every moment of your life, the outer form of your life doesn’t matter anymore.
To find happiness, enlightenment, and compassion, you have to be free, not fooled by your perceptions.
Happiness can come to you in a thousand ways if you only allow it to. But if you’re committed to only one idea of happiness, you’re stuck.
at some point in your life you adopt an idea or a perception as the absolute truth, you close the door of your mind. This is the end of seeking the truth. And not only do you no longer seek the truth, but even if the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you refuse to open it.
Attachment to views, attachment to ideas, attachment to perceptions are the biggest obstacle to the truth.”
Ideas and perceptions should be abandoned all the time, to make room for better ideas and truer perceptions.
This is why we must always ask ourselves, “Am I sure?”
When people asked him whether he was sure, he said, “I can’t say that I’m sure. This is my opinion, based on my best understanding at this time.”
Your action, what you do, depends on who you are. The quality
there is a link between doing and being. If you don’t succeed in being, you can’t succeed in doing.
Happiness is feeling that you are on the right path every moment.
You are happy right here and right now.
It is possible to live mindfully every moment of your daily life. This makes you happy, and it also makes the people around you happy.
That is the miracle of being.
So if you can be yourself, this is already love, this is already action.
Action is based on nonaction, and nonaction is the practice of being.
Practicing compassion is practicing happiness, because happiness is the absence of suffering.
You practice love, you practice compassion, and you know that practicing love brings happiness. Happiness cannot exist without love.
Our minds can be intoxicated by three kinds of poison: the first is craving, the second is hate or violence, and the third is delusion.
I am here. I am alive. I am taking a step.
Zen Master Lin Chi said, “The miracle is not to walk on air, or on water, or on fire. The real miracle is to walk on earth.”
You are truly alive. You are truly present, touching the wonders of life within you and around you.
We have found many ways to save labor, and yet we are much busier than our ancestors were. That is a contradiction.
we have acquired so much and we are afraid of losing these things, so we have to work hard to keep them. That is why even if you have a lot, you still suffer and become depressed.
We have taken into ourselves so many toxins, poisons. The world we have created has overpowered
Most of us walk like sleepwalkers. We walk, but we aren’t there.
We are sleepwalking through our own life,
Impermanence means that everything is changing, including the happiness you experience when you are doing walking meditation.
Happiness, like all phenomena, is impermanent. It lasts for only one step; if the next step doesn’t have mindfulness, concentration, and insight, then happiness will die.
something impermanent. If happiness can be renewed, so can you, because you in the next moment is a renewal of you in this moment. It’s wonderful to know that happiness lasts only as long as one in-breath or one step, because we know we can renew our happiness in another
Our happiness, our existence, is dependent on the existence and happiness of everyone and everything else. This is the insight of interbeing, the interconnectedness of all things.
