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“From the beginning this “self” does not exist, yet because we’re so firmly attached to the idea of it, we spend much of our lives defending or enlarging or satisfying this imaginary self. Meditation helps us to see its conceptual nature, to see that in reality it does not exist, that it is simply an idea, an extraneous projection onto what’s happening in the moment.”
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
― The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation
“We do not want to admit our lack of substance to ourselves and, instead, strive to project an image of completeness, or self-sufficiency. The paradox is that, to the extent that we succumb to this urge, we are estranged from ourselves and are not real. Our narcissism requires that we keep the truth about our selves at bay.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“In psychological terms, the Buddha’s first truth, for instance, is really about the inevitability of our own humiliation. His insights challenge us to examine ourselves with a candor that we would prefer to avoid.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“No matter what we do, he taught, we cannot sustain the illusion of our self-sufficiency. We are all subject to decay, old age, and death, to disappointment, loss, and disease.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
“When the ego is not able to “unravel its structure,” when the capacity for love is shut down because of fear, insecurity, or confusion, then the person becomes isolated by and imprisoned in individuality. Where there is no unburdening and no rhythm of tension and relaxation, there can be no freedom to bond, no surrender of ego boundaries, and no merging of the kind that characterizes all forms of love.”
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
― Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective
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