A Bigger Sky Quotes

“One of the most radical shifts we can make is from understanding waking up as an event to seeing awakened life as the expression of beneficial qualities - generosity, patience, virtue, honesty, wisdom, lovingkindness, enthusiasm, equanimity - cultivated in our relationships with other. Here, awakening is measured not by the depth of our insight but based on our behavior: how we act and interact with each other and the world.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“One of the most radical shifts we can make is from understanding waking up as an event to seeing awakened life as the expression of beneficial qualities - generosity, patience, virtue, honesty, wisdom, lovingkindness, enthusiasm, equanimity - cultivated in our relationships with other. Here, awakening is measured not by the depth of our insight but based on our behavior: how we act and interact with each other and the world.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“What do we want to do? Who do we want to become? As Suzuki Roshi used to ask his students, “What is your heart’s inmost request?”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“the statement that nothing exists is an expression of absolute truth looking through eyes of wisdom; the statement that everything is connected is an expression of absolute truth looking through eyes of love.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“True generosity is the willingness to be with ourselves, each other, and all of our experience without tinkering with it. It means that when we are sad or bored or disappointed, we allow ourselves be sad or bored or disappointed”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“Buddhist teaching uses the metaphor of a bird to describe the two wings needed to engage the spiritual path: one wing is wisdom—clearly seeing into the emptiness of all things; and the other wing is compassion—the ability to bring care and kindness to everything we see. Both wings are needed to fly.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“It’s not about stopping the ruckus,” she explained. “Our practice is not about transcendence. It’s about getting to know all the parts of ourselves, especially those we have ignored or abandoned.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism

“A more feminine flavor of spiritual practice tilts toward embodiment and engagement in the world. It focuses on transformation rather than transcendence and on staying grounded, with our feet firmly planted on the earth. It is a process of learning to cultivate humility, to celebrate the wide, wild expression of humanity, and to love and care for our one shared home.”
― Pamela Weiss, A Bigger Sky: Awakening a Fierce Feminine Buddhism