When you learn how to suffer, you suffer much less.
Happiness is not an individual matter.
Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.
The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.
If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won’t want to let it in.
Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.
Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say “Long live impermanence!”
At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that’s precisely the point.
While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes.
Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.
You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.
To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.
Just listen Be peace.
When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.
The miracle is to walk on the earth.
When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.
When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind – a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object.
How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?
To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.
Happiness is not an individual matter. When you are able to bring relief, or bring back the smile to one person, not only that person profits, but you also profit.