76 Quotes by Sharon Salzberg about Buddhism
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Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
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Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.
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With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.
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Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way—with awareness, balance, and love
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Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
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To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.
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With attachment all that seems to exist is just me & that object I desire.
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We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
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By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home.
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