Buddha's Map Quotes

“suffering has less to do with the splinter in our finger (the raw sensation) and more to do with the splinter in our mind (what we tell ourselves about the sensation).”
― Doug Kraft, Buddha's Map

“After all, a picture of a cow is not a cow.”
― Doug Kraft, Buddha's Map

“It takes a finger to point to the moon, but woe to the person who mistakes the finger for the moon.”
― Doug Kraft, Buddha's Map

“Siddhartha Gautama said that “life has dissatisfaction” (dukkha). He didn’t say that “life is suffering and nothing but suffering”—only that we all suffer in larger or smaller ways.”
― Doug Kraft, Buddha's Map

“One trains thus: ‘I shall breathe in tranquilizing the bodily formation;’ One trains thus: ‘I shall breathe out tranquilizing the bodily formation.”
― Doug Kraft, Buddha's Map