‘You take something that no longer exists and put it into your mind and compare it with what comes up. If you have a shadow of something, can you hold onto that shadow? All of your perceptions, as they arise like shadows, have nothing for you to hold on to.’
Gien Inour Roshi
‘The mind can be focused on one thing — on the body, the breath, or whatever — without there being any obstacles like distraction or dullness.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
‘Fools think they harm themselves by putting others first.’
Everyday Buddhism
‘Awareness does not belong to anyone; it is not ‘my’ awareness or ‘your’ awareness. It is vast, boundless, and ever-present, beyond the categories of self and other.’
Everyday Buddhism
‘It might be pure meditation or concentration (shamatha), but without the ethical base, there will be no substance to it.’
Geshe Tashi Tsering
‘Manjushri: If I had set out for enlightenment, then I would wish to fully know it. But I do not strive after enlightenment, because enlightenment is just the same thing as this Manjushri, the Crown Prince.’
Prajnaparamita
‘The Cloud of Noble Jewels Sutra says: bodhisattva is one who perseveres in all different types of actions without getting tired in body or mind. This is called the persistent perseverance of a bodhisattva.’
Master Bojo
‘Those who seek for the Tathagata should seek for the self. For ‘self’ and ‘Buddha’ are synonymous.’
Prajnaparamita
