‘If we are constantly following what others say and think, we never live our own lives.’
Diana St Ruth
‘If we are constantly following what others say and think, we never live our own lives.’
Diana St Ruth
An Inner Search, an interview with Diana St Ruth. In English with Italian subtitles.
‘Descriptions are merely devices, skilful means for awakening, but they’re not reality itself.’
Diana St Ruth
Becoming aware of these two aspects of reality simultaneously…
Karma: The more we contemplate life, the more we realise just how mysterious it is.
These ideas brought an overwhelming sense of joy to me. It meant I was not a helpless victim of circumstance or fate, as I had thought.
A few stares of disbelief and awkward silences was enough for me, if I ever had the temerity to mention my heartfelt interest. So I lived with a private kind of Buddhism while in other respects living a typical working-class English life in a city in the late fifties and sixties…
The practice of Buddhism, however, is not to go up and down with those changing conditions—feeling sad when things are not as we want them to be, and happy when they are. The Buddha’s teaching is pointing towards understanding this world…