180 Quotes About Dharma

Part of why I love these angry, straight, white punks is that they are stripping the dharma of its bullshit, and applying it to contexts and styles that, even if they aren’t mine, are at least different from the norm.

There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.

Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you’re not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

ഏതോ ചില വികാരങ്ങളുടെ പ്രേരണാവിശേഷങ്ങളാൽ വേണ്ടുമ്പോലെ ആലോചിക്കാതെ പറഞ്ഞുപോയ വാക്കിന്റെ പേരിൽ 'സത്യം, സത്യം' എന്നു വിചാരിച്ചടങ്ങുന്നത് 'വിധി, വിധി' എന്നു വെച്ചടങ്ങുന്നതു പോലെ ഒരു ദുർബലതയും തന്മൂലം അധർമ്മവുമാണ്

How did I get 'IT'? - By crying, begging, yelping! - Any of this helping?