Buddhism

The witness is just a thought too. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Self.
The self is just one of our many constructed models of reality. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Self.
Not 'get rid of the self', but transcend and include it. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Self.
You lack for nothing; your task is to recognise this. Also in: Human, Buddhism.
The koan of everyday life. Also in: Buddhism.
No me, no problem. Just this! Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism, Nondual.
Desire and Aversion are just disturbances of the senses. Also in: Buddhism.
It is difficult to find awareness because it is too close, too accessible, too present, and too simple. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Being is always bright, whatever the contents of consciousness. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
We practice for the benefit of all beings. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Love.
To address your shortcomings, embody the opposite. Also in: Buddhism, Opposites, Self.
We are puppets of the movement of our judgements. Also in: Buddhism.
"I" is an empty signifier. We can fill it with what we like. That is why is useful. Also in: Buddhism.
There's no need to be so antagonistic towards the costume you're wearing. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Waking-up.
Simply be awake as the unvarnished bare actuality of just this, exactly as it is, rough edges and all. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
The darkness behind your closed eyes arises in the transparency, the emptiness, of consciousness. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism.
Completeness can be accessed more easily through incompleteness. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Our deepest nature is the unity that includes diversity. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
The illusion of duality is the primary source of human suffering. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
The six senses are burning with craving. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
The harmony that includes our differences is deeper and more durable than the one that doesn’t. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Say "no thanks" (to the self). And mean it! Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
The wholeness of life is all there is. Also in: Buddhism, Waking-up, Nondual.
More "Is this a helpful strategy?" and less "Is this a final, fundamental, truth?" Also in: Buddhism, Waking-up, Human.
Life is something we are, not something we're trying to negotiate. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Waking-up.
Cause and effect is an infinite regression. Also in: Waking-up, Buddhism.
Stop and realise you are the freedom you're searching for. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Mindfulness.
Pay more attention to how much of your actions feel mysterious. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Experience.
Absolute intimacy with the 10,000 things. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Who are you, once you've let everything go? Also in: Buddhism, Self.
See what's happening in this moment as exactly right. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Recognise the matrix of (constructed) narratives you live in. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Self.
Reality, seen and unseen, is one unified field of loving aliveness. Also in: Tmwt, Buddhism.
Our true nature is deep, still, harmonious without the polarities of opinion and belief. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Nondual.
Empty as in absence, the possibility of appearance. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Nondual.
Effortless action as in: no sense of self taking action Also in: Daoism, Nondual, Buddhism.
By holding fast to our likes and dislikes, we continually recreate the sense of self. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Nondual.
Tend patiently to your mind, like a gardener to their garden. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Take the cushion everywhere. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Suffering is struggling with things as they are. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism.
Simply to be alive presents us with tension and mystery. Also in: Experience, Human, Buddhism.
Be friendly to yourself and merciful to others. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Uncertainty is just a story you tell yourself. (Inaction is in fact an action) Also in: Human, Buddhism, Resilience.
Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. Also in: Buddhism.
Orient towards stillness. Also in: Buddhism.
Zen uses contradiction and paradox to loosen our grip on concepts. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
Zen demonstrates reality rather than talking about it. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
You are the principle victim of your delusions. Also in: Buddhism, Waking-up.
You are the principal beneficiary of your practice. Also in: Buddhism, Waking-up.
Totally embrace all ordinary opposites in harmony. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
The separation of subject and object is only conceptual. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism, Experience.
Soak in the silence and vastness of existence. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Plant good seeds. Day by day. Year after year. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Live with full attention and clear awarness. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Human.
Labels divide and isolate. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Nondual.
Just rest. Don't meddle with thinking. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Drop a koan into your mind like a pebble into a still pond. Also in: Buddhism.
Clarity is accepting what's clear and what's not clear. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Choosing obscures the way. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Experience.
Respond to discomfort from a place of stillness. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Recognise your self as overlapping, malleable, stories. Also in: Buddhism, Motion.
No part of a person is unchanging, permanent. Also in: Self, Buddhism.
Life is defined by growth and transformation, aliveness. Also in: Buddhism, Motion.
Craving something makes it feel farther away. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Opposites.
Solitary confinement is (the sense of self is) a prison. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Notice the freshness of unfolding reality. Also in: Buddhism, Motion, Experience.
Naked awareness: thoughts and the mind are like clothes and the body. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Attend to the dynamic nature of emergent life. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion.
Your identity is a narrow slice of your potential. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Grasping and aversion both reinforce things. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Don't take it so seriously: be more playful. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Don't adopt the stupidity of not investigating. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
Trying to escape our own suffering creates a separate self. Also in: Buddhism, Resilience.
The effort to be a different person increases the tension, the suffering. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Practice is something we do for the rest of our lives. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
Practice grows the amount of life you can hold with becoming upset, without it dominating you. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Mindfulness.
No separation between you and the circumstances of your life. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism, Human.
Let action emerge from experience. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Slowness.
It's not a quiet mind that matters but non-attachment to the activities of the mind. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
Decisions seems like problems from a self-centred point of view. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Notice how giving experience a warm welcome makes you feel about yourself. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Don't let the content of awareness veil your true nature of happiness and peace. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Become viscerally intimate with the truth. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
The story includes the feeling tone includes the raw data of experience. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Have patient determination: just commit to the next step on the path. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
The Six Perfections: Generosity; Morality; Patience; Effort; Meditation; Wisdom. Also in: Buddhism.
The Five Hindrances: Sensual Desire; Ill Will; Sloth; Restlessness; Doubt. Also in: Buddhism.
Right Mindfulness (including Right Action (including Right Speech)). Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Pay close attention to the consequences of your behaviour. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
In between any two opposites lies emptiness, creative potential. Also in: Buddhism, Opposites.
"Not knowing is most intimate. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Manifestation, performance, function, but no centre. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Nondual.
An empty signifier with no fixed referent. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Nondual.
The "I am" prior to all. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism, Self.
Everything is perfect as it is, even the ego that insists it's not. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Just noticing that we were distracted, again and again: that is the practice, that is meditation. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
Seek, without wanting to change to a (transitory) state. Also in: Experience, Self, Buddhism.
Everything that exists is contingent. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
When meditating, be very gentle with your concentration. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Meditation is about resting. Not-doing, relaxing, refreshing, recharging. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
The sense of self is just another thought. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Nondual.
Nothing to gain, no results. Just the process. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Slowness.
We (subsconsciously, contextually) edit out the qualities that don't match what we want to see, good or bad. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Experience.
You are partly right (whether it's praise or criticism). Also in: Buddhism, Human, Acceptance.
Develop a healthy relationship with your imperfections. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Acceptance.
To be able to provide help we need a little calm, a little joy, a little compassion. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
The task of the meditator is to care for bad feelings, like an older sibling. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The self is like a constellation. It exists only be convention. Also in: Self, Buddhism.
The self is just a concept, coming from identifying with what's arising. Also in: Self, Buddhism.
The problem is the reactivity, triggered by the underlying feeling tone, creating a compelling narrative. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Mindfulness.
The knowing and the object arise as a pair, distinct but not separate. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual, Experience.
The freedom is in the not-(becoming). Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
Not analysis, but unthinking absorption. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
Making yourself an attractive object doesn't help you be happy as a subject. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Nondual.
Love takes us out towards the world, opening to what's in front of us. Also in: Human, Buddhism.
Listen to others' needs, know your limitations, then act compassionately. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Mindfulness.
Learn to sense the feeling tone (vedana) before you become entangled and start to spiral. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
Emptiness means not independent, not separate, not unchanging. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
Don't recall, don't imagine, don't think, don't examine, don't control. Rest. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Experience.
Being distracted is not a problem but staying distracted is. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Become less attached to your pains and pleasures. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Experience.
Joy and delight are better encouragement to learning than criticism. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Celebrate your good qualities to acknowledge and improve them. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Anger, anxiety, aren't the right states from which to best respond. Also in: Human, Buddhism.
The effort to meditate creates the meditator, separateness, duality. Also in: Nondual, Self, Buddhism.
Short moments, many times. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Reaction to thought is also another thought. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Feel the profound relief of recognising no-self. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Nondual.
Equalise self and others, as human beings. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Our reaction to ordinary, everyday, events show us our true colours. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Human.
The Fourfold Task: Embrace life; Let go of (instinctive) reactivity; See the ceasing of reactivity; Act from a place of clarity. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
The Four Noble Truths: there is suffering; the cause of suffering is craving; there is an end to suffering; the way is the eightfold path. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
The Eightfold Path; (Ethics) Right Speech, Action, Livelihood; (Meditation) Effort, Mindfulness, Concentration; (Wisdom) View, Intention. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Find peace, humility in our smallness, our luck to be alive. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this. Also in: Experience, Acceptance, Buddhism.
Your deeper identity is that relaxed, alive, stillness. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
What happens when you bring compassion to the feeling? Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
The movement of thoughts in your mind creates a narrative, a self. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Quiet the mind, open the heart. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
More important than what's happening is how you meet it. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Mindful presence, mindful response. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Human.
Don't reduce a person to their temporary function. Also in: Buddhism, Daoism.
The Middle Way. Both indulgence and deprivation are equally useless for liberation. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Human.
The consequences of our choices extend far and wide, in many directions. Also in: Buddhism, Stoicism, Human.
No things are truly independently existing. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Nondual.
Do everything with two hands. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
Beware escapism, it accrues interest. Also in: Stoicism, Buddhism, Resilience.
Beware desire, it destroys peace. Also in: Stoicism, Buddhism, Resilience.
What's real doesn't disappear when we look carefully. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
We can't think our way out of thinking, only observe it, from outside it. Also in: Buddhism, Nondual.
We can't think in a nondual way, only notice when we're not doing it. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism.
We can't expect the thinking mind to (break the illusion of the self) by not-thinking. Also in: Self, Buddhism.
The thought that life shouldn't be a struggle is painful, so we try to escape it. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
Slowly, painfully, reconcile to life. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
"Selfing" has interacting existential, psychological, and social layers. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Recognise unhappiness, without trying to change it or fix it. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
Practice is not having a problem with the endless stream of problems. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Human.
Practice is about moving from experiences to experiencing. Also in: Buddhism, Motion, Nondual.
Our emotions transform preferences into demands. Also in: Buddhism, Stoicism, Human.
Non-forgiveness comes from feeling separate, being self-centered. Also in: Buddhism, Human, Nondual.
Let problems support your practice, enhance your ability to respond appropriately. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Mindfulness.
Do fewer (and fewer) things that make people (including you) miserable. Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Beyond thought and self, not thinking-about-not-self. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
A good life is rich and interesting, but not always happy. Also in: Buddhism, Resilience.
Our conventional sense of self is an illusion. Also in: Self, Experience, Buddhism.
Only the absence of the thinker of thoughts can be found. Also in: Self, Experience, Buddhism.
Buddhism's central teachings are entirely empirical. Also in: Buddhism.
We set the threshold (for gratitude, for example) Also in: Buddhism, Human.
Even a "bad session" of meditation interrupts the non-stop flow of thoughts. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Renunciation, not action, is the path to liberation. Also in: Waking-up, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Treat waiting as unexpected extra time to practice. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Notice the space around objects, connecting objects. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
It's so close we overlook it. Also in: Buddhism.
Gradually break the bad habits of bad feelings, bad intentions. Also in: Buddhism.
Awareness brings choice. Choice brings freedom. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
We practice to (have the strength to) confront problems effectively. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Seeing clearly is difficult because of the (imaginary) obstacles we put up. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Mindfulness brings concentration, concentration brings insight. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Impermanence is what makes transformation possible. Also in: Buddhism, Motion.
Enlightenment is non-interference. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The Triple Gem: the Buddha; the Dharma (teachings); the Sangha (community). Also in: Buddhism.
The Three Poisons: grasping (greed); aversion (anger); ignorance (delusion). Also in: Buddhism, Human.
The Three Marks Of Existence: Impermanence (Anicca); Suffering (Dukkha); No-self (Anatta). Also in: Buddhism, Human.
The Four Heavenly Abodes: metta (loving-kindness); karuna (compassion); mudita (empathetic joy); upekkha (equanimity). Also in: Buddhism, Human.
When we resist impermanence, the feeling of self intensifies. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
Find calm by suspending the why. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness.
Work patiently, steadily, calmly. Allow ample time. Also in: Buddhism, Slowness, Acceptance.
Use whatever happens as opportunity to wake up, to soften. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The intensity of the pain is equal to the intensity of the grasping. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance.
Refrain, not repress. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Pay attention, no matter what. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
We tend to assume that we can only be happy if things go the way we want. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Everything, every thing, causes some problems. Also in: Resilience, Buddhism.
"If only" mind sets us up to be miserable now. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Acceptance.
How we show up in our daily life is probably the truest metric of the efficacy of our practice. Also in: Buddhism.
Zazen is enacting stillness, non-reactivity. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Let go. Don't push, don't pull. Make space. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Slowness.
Experiental reality is much deeper, richer, than what can be named. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Awakening is an ongoing process, a ripening, cultivation. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Motion.
Trust and desire for control are inversely correlated. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism, Resilience.
The self is a stream of dependently arising processes interacting. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Suffering comes from aversion. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Resilience.
See the balanced view of yourself: your patterns and human imperfections; your basic innate goodness. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Human.
Integrate insights by being present and open to changes. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
Experience is renewing itself in every moment. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion, Waking-up.
Free will is an illusion. Can you decide to decide? Also in: Buddhism, Self, Human, Waking-up.
Bringing attention to things gives us choice. Also in: Buddhism, Self.
We maintain our sense of self by editing of, selecting from, experience. Also in: Buddhism, Self, Experience.
The richness of life is unedited, unjudged, aesthetic, experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness.
Human decisions are cause and effect, like all natural phenomena. Also in: Buddhism, Experience.
Get past the conceptual overlay and just notice the raw data, direct experience. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
You can't use concepts to get beyond concepts. Also in: Buddhism, Waking-up.
You don't have to fulfil a desire for it to pass away. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
You can't get there from here. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Withhold judgement. Also in: Slowness, Buddhism, Daoism.
This moment, as it is, is good enough. Also in: Experience, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Things only exist by convention, in aggregates. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism.
The sky, not the clouds. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The self is causes, conditions, patterns. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Tmwt, Waking-up.
The Second Arrow. Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Resilience.
The ocean, not the waves. Also in: Self, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Follow The Middle Way. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness.
The big boulder is only heavy if you pick it up. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Resilience.
Tend the garden. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Take the backward step. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Subject and object are distinct, but not separate. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism, Tmwt, Waking-up.
See more clearly. See things as they are, see ourselves as we are. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Love.
Respond rather than react. Intensity and reactivity breed more of the same. Also in: Buddhism, Stoicism, Slowness, Love.
Recognise the suffering. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human, Resilience.
Reality is nondual. Also in: Nondual, Buddhism, Daoism.
RAIN. Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Acceptance.
People's reactions are the result of their pain. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Pay more attention. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Pay lively attention to your own experience. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Nothing really forms long enough to be an impermanent thing. Also in: Buddhism, Motion.
Movement masks dukkha. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Slowness.
Meet your edge and soften. Also in: Acceptance, Resilience, Buddhism.
Look for the center of experience. It's not there. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Listen more closely, attentively, and actively. Really hear what’s being said. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Leave everything as it is, in its place. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble. Also in: Experience, Buddhism.
In seeing, only the seen. There's no you. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Impermanence. Everything and everyone changes, regardless of what we might think or want. Also in: Buddhism, Motion, Waking-up.
Imperfections are normal, natural, human. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Acceptance.
I see you, Mara. Let’s have tea. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism.
The greater the resistance to (inevitable) changes, the greater the pain. Also in: Buddhism, Acceptance, Experience.
Give everything a warm welcome. Also in: Acceptance, Experience, Buddhism, Resilience.
Expand your window of tolerance. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Everything is connected. Also in: Tmwt, Buddhism, Nondual.
Everything is allowed, even resistance. Also in: Acceptance, Mindfulness, Buddhism, Experience.
Everything arises and passes away, all on its own. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Motion, Waking-up.
Everyone's good qualities are partly luck and partly effort. Also in: Human, Buddhism, Self.
Don't try. Don't try not to try. Relax. Let go. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Don’t add a story. Also in: Mindfulness, Resilience, Buddhism, Stoicism.
Consciousness is the prior condition of everything you experience. Also in: Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Concepts put imaginary fences around things. Also in: Buddhism, Experience, Waking-up.
Come home to the present. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism.
Begin Again, with with a fresh, open-hearted, perspective. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Resilience, Waking-up.
Be the loving witness. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Acceptance.
Be "happy for no reason." Also in: Human, Buddhism, Mindfulness.
Be comfortable with ambiguity. Also in: Mindfulness, Buddhism, Human.
Appreciate the sights you see from the train. Also in: Buddhism, Mindfulness, Waking-up.
Accept whatever arises. Also in: Acceptance, Experience, Buddhism, Waking-up.
Accept that flux and insecurity are the norm. It brings peace. Also in: Acceptance, Buddhism, Resilience.

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